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Translatewiki.net is ae localisation platform fer owersetin communities, leid communities, n free n apen soorce waurks. It stairted oot wi localisation fer MediaWiki. Later. support wis eikit fer MediaWiki extensions, FreeCol n ither free n apen soorce waurks. See the compleate leet o supported waurks.

Translatewiki.net isna pairt o the Wikimedia Foondation waurks, or o onie foondation or apen soorce waurk. It's rin bi Nike n Siebrand, wha ar baith deveeloopers n hae conseederable experience in i18n n L10n, n ither staff memmers ava. The owersetin functionalitie is gien bi the MediaWiki extension Owerset. This wiki aye contains experimental code, n micht be broken nou n than. Please be patient, problems ar uisuallie dealt wi quicklie. Issues can be reported at the support page.

Explorin

 * Maist contreebuters ar awreadie familiar wi uising wiki saffware. Gif ye'r new til wiki saffware than ye can learn the basics n fynd heelp oan hou tae eidit oan MediaWiki.org.
 * Fynd oot hou the owerseters wark at this introduction til owersetin.
 * Techneecal information oan the saffware nou bein uised bi translatewiki.net.
 * Translatewiki.net produces stateestics tae track progress in owersetin, bi leid n bi Waurk. Explore the stateestics n ither information oan the general stateestics page.

Why uise translatewiki.net
Yinlie some key points here. See mair aneat Owerset in the documentation; n why ye shid owerset oor projects, in their pages.

Enable yer saffware project oan translatewiki.net gif it's no yet.
 * The best owersetin tuil available oan the wab. Aw localisation updates happen oan aen easie interface, n thaur ar fawk aroond that can heelp owerseters. Whan makin aen owerset, hints tae unnerstaund its correct meanin n uise ar gien, aes weel aes suggestions fae owersetin memerie/machine owersetin services.
 * Naw parteecular preevileges needed, awbodie can contreebute. Awbodie that can contreebute in ae leid (see ablo) is permited tae heelp wi the localisation o that leid.
 * Keepin track o chynges is easie. Onowerset messages arna the Yinlie easilie foond: whanever the soorce tex chynges, the affected owersets ar tagged fer easie identifeecation. Owerseters dinna hae tae spend time diggin fer whit needs daein.

Luikower o translatewiki.net methyd
CLDR localisation data is bein conseedered. At present the yinlie data taen directlie fae CLDR til translatewiki.net, n oan til MediaWiki, ar localised leid names.
 * Oan translatewiki.net owerseters owerset the interface o safware fer products whaur the Ingils tex strings hae been isolated fae the code n hae been organized intil indiveedual "messages".
 * Whan ae new waurk joins, the Ingils soorce messages ar imported. Further new Ingils messages ar imported fae time til time.
 * Owersetins can be maakit fer ilka message in ae separate subpage o the Ingils oreeginal fer ilka leid, /xxx fer leid code xxx.
 * Sub-pages named /qqq ar uised fer message documentation. The documentation is written manualie n is uisualie o better qualitie whaur guid communication exeests wi the oreeginal saffware deveelooper team. Gif soorce code comments ar pairt o ae saffware waurk, thir ar displeyed in the owersetin interface ava.
 * Owerseters mak suggestions tae impruiv or correct aen oreeginal Ingils message, or adapt it tae support localisation. Gif agreed, thir ar implemented either bi translatewiki.net memmers that ar deveeloopers oan the reelevant waurk ava, or reported til the waurk deveeloopers.
 * Compleated owersets fer ilka leid ar "commeetted" til the projects bi translatewiki.net staff, aes suin aes the total nummer o owersets fer ae project in that leid haes passed the threshaud agreed fer that project. Fer frequencie o committin n threshauds see the waurk pages.
 * The saffware release o owersets that hae been commeetted til ae project is controlled n executed bi the project admeenistraters n is oot o the hauns o translatewiki.net.
 * Owerseters warkin oan MediaWiki forby owerset speecial page names, magic wairds n namespaces, uisin the page Extended MediaWiki owersetin.
 * Whan ae new lied is set up at translatewiki.net, eitems localised at the stairt inclæde the screept n its direction, n ae fawback leid; ither localised eitems can inclæde date/time format, nummer format, n PLURAL, GRAIMMER n GENDER functions. Convergence wi

Copiericht n disclaimers
TRANSLATEWIKI.NET MAKS NAE GUARANTEE O VALEEDITIE

Uise the owersets in translatewiki.net at yer ain risk. Thay'r intended tae be uisefu but translatewiki.net canna guarantee the valeeditie o the content foond here.

Translatewiki.net n its eiditers dina provide onie warrantie oan the contents whitsaeever, whither expressed, implied, or statutair, inclædin, but no limited til, onie warrantie o merchantabeelitie or fitness fer ae parteecular purpose or onie warrantie that the contents will be mistak-free.

Owersets bi owerseters ar licensed CC-BY 3.0, n dereevateeve warks can foreby be licensed unner the licenses o the respecteeve Free n Apen Soorce waurks the owersets hae been or will be eikit til. Content o uiser pages ar conseedered tae be "Aw richts is hained" bi the auther. Aw ither content is licensed CC-BY 3.0 onless ae differant license or copiericht is statit expleecitlie.

Histerie
Translatewiki.net stairted durin 2006 aes ae test wiki, deveelooped bi Nike, in collaboration wi Gangleri, aes aen internationalisation tuil fer the localisation o the MediaWiki saffware. It stairted unner the name Betawiki, n this became translatewiki.net at the stairt o 2009, follaein the site being muived til virtual server hostin unner its ain domain name, oan 9th November 2007. Bi October 2007 translatewiki.net wis contreebuting til localisation in aboot 70 leids, n this bi Juin 2010 had grawn til 329 lieds. Hou the nummer o leids haes grawn is veesible in the buird o owersetin milestanes passed fer MediaWiki. Bi Januair 2010 aen upgrade wis needed til the server capacitie, tae cope wi the increase in acteevitie. Netcup haes generooslie hosted translatewiki.net sin November 2007.

Ither free n apen soorce waurks hae graduallie been eikit til translatewiki.net, stairtin wi FreeCol in August 2007. Bi Juin 2010 the nummer o waurks supportit had grawn til 16.

Contreebuters til translatewiki.net ar aw volunteers, except fer yin staff memmer wha receeves fundin fer pairt o his time (see fundin ablo). Deveeloopers, admeenistraters n owerseters were at first recruited fae MediaWiki waurks, especiallie Wikimedia. Maist o oor contreebuters still arrive here bi wa o MediaWiki, but wi mair projects arrivin aw the time, MediaWiki isna the yinlie soorce o contreebuters onie langer. Bi Juin 2010, the nummer o registered owerseters wis 1,860.

In collaboration wi Stichtin Apen Progress n FUDforum, translatewiki.net haes arranged several owersetin rallies wi boonties fer owersetsers available, tae impruiv the localisation o MediaWiki n FUDforum.
 * In 2008 the Dutch NGO Hivos gave fundin bi wa o Stichtin Apen Progress. The graunt wis tae be uised tae provide boonties fer owersets in ae leet o 70 til 80 leids spoken in Africa, Asia, n Latin America that had ae sizable nummer o speakers, but onsuffeecient support in MediaWiki.
 * At the end o 2008 aen end o year owersetin rallie apen til aw owerseters wis heeld.
 * Durin August 2009 anither owerset rallie wis organized, funded bi Wikimedia Nederland, the Dutch Wikimedia chaipter.
 * Wikimedia Nederland funded the 2009 end o year rallie ava.

The aims o translatewiki.net ar described oan the Introduction. Techneelogeecal aids fer owerseters ar described oan the Technologie page. Thir aids ar continuallie bein expandit n impruived apo in order tae mak the owersetin wairk aes effeecient aes possible. The nou site needs n deveeloopment ar described oan Issues n features.

Fundin

 * Translatewiki.net is kindly hosted by Netcup – webspace and vServer, at their expense since November 2007, with upgrades in February 2008, January 2010, October 2013, and July 2015.
 * Stichtin Apen Progress n ithers hae fae time til time organized fundin fer owersetin rallies tae impruiv the localisation o MediaWiki, aes explained abuin.
 * Syne October 2009 the Wikimedia Foondation contracted Siebrand tae wark aboot yin day ae week oan translatewiki.net.

Core team
Core team memmers ar involved awmaist dailie rinnin translatewiki.net. Thay hae access til the servers ava, n ar responseeble fer makin things rin wi aes few problems aes possible. Fer mair information please consult thair indiveedual uiser pages.


 * Nike
 * Foonder, maistlie deveeloopment wark


 * Siebrand
 * Communitie manager, waurk coordinater, deveelooper


 * Raymond
 * Owersetin committer fer MediaWiki, deveelooper



We forby depend oan the wark dun bi ither memmers o oor communitie:
 * Gangleri – earlie veesionair, naw langer acteeve
 * GerardM – Ambassater, publeecitie uisin direct contact, blogs, StatusNet, Twitter
 * Aw contacts in indiveedual waurks
 * Aw owerseters n ither memmers o this waurk

Groops
Aw contreebuters ar organized intil vareeoos groops, aw groops haein thair ain preevileges. Like ither wikis, fawk that register oan the wiki ar cawed Uisers. Uisers ar autæmateeclie confirmed 4 days efter registering, permitin thaim tae send wab-mails til ither uisers. Admeenistraters hae mair preevileges, mainlie concerned wi protectin the site fae vandaleesm. Bureaucrats hae some mair preevileges, incluidin grauntin n remuivin normal uiser richts, but ar graunted bureaucrat status bi memmers o the Staff groop. Bots ar uiser accoonts that can perform tasks autæmaticlie. The Import richt, permitin ae uiser tae import pages fae ither wikis, is rarelie uised here.

Aes weel aes thir uisual groops, translatewiki.net haes uiser groops byordinair til its purpyse ava. The Owerseters can eedit in protected namespaces, uisin the owersetin interface. Some oweseters can wairk affline oan thair owersets. The Staff groop ar the oweraw managers o this site. Thay import the messages tae be owerset n commit compleated owersets til the waurks that uise translatewiki.net. Thay can amend the Ingils soorce messages directlie oan some waurks, incluidin MediaWiki. Thay manage aw aspects o the saffware uised here.

The richts attached til ilka uiser groop ar leetit oan the page Uiser Groop Richts. Leets o the memmers o ilka groop can be seen oan the page Uiser leet.

Contact us
Ye can lea ae message oan oor main discussion page at Support. Gif ye prefer live discussion than gie oor IRC channel ae luikower #mediawiki-i18n at freenode. Naw preferred, but gif needed fer securitie or privacie raisons, ye can uise wab-mail aes ae methyd o contact at "translatewiki AT translatewiki DOT net" - replace "AT" wi "@" n "DOT" wi ".", n remuiv spaces fae the wab-mail address ava.


 * Ye can discuss issues aneat ae parteecular leid wi its owerseters oan the tauk page o the leid portal.
 * Ye can discuss issues aneat ae parteecular waurk wi its supporters n the deveelooper liaison oan the tauk page o the waurk page.
 * Ye can discuss issues wi indiveedual uisers oan thair uiser tauk page, or bi wab-mail (clap oan the wab-mail link in the sidebaur oan ae uiser page), gif they hae chosen tae permit wab-mail.