Translating:WikimediaMobile



Wikimedia Mobile consists of Android and iOS apps that are used for reading and editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Translators may add WikipediaMobile to their babel box or include   to add themselves to Category:WikipediaMobile translators.


 * Support contact (iOS): Monte Hurd
 * Support contact (Android): Stephen Niedzielski
 * Source (iOS): https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-ios-wikipedia
 * Source (Android): https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia
 * Licence (iOS): MIT
 * Licence (Android): Apache
 * Bug reporting: enter new bug

Translation flow

 * Android Wikipedia app:
 * updates available in source within 1 week: see the sub folder of wikipedia/res/values-*.
 * updates should be available in release of Wikipedia Beta Android app in Play Store within 1-2 weeks
 * updates should be available in release of Wikipedia Android app in Play Store for the following release
 * iOS Wikipedia app:
 * updates available in source within 1 week. see updates in our source code repository
 * beta updates are available to testers every 2 weeks.
 * The final product is available in the iOS App Store.

Translating notes
MediaWiki and Wikipedia jargon may appear; see Translating:MediaWiki for more general references.

The application uses the same localization framework as MediaWiki's JavaScript-based code. Message parameter format is the same as MediaWiki for iOS: $1, $2 etc. Android uses more complicated Message formats based on Java's Formatter. Most of the time we just use %s (for single strings). Sometimes we use multi-parameter messages. In those cases we need to specify the position: %1$s for the first string parameter, %2$s for the second string parameter.

However, functions such as NaN undefineds are not currently available as they are in other parts of MediaWiki.

Some UI terminology may need to stay consistent with other translations on particular platforms; for details see /Terms

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