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Add the Edo language

I write to request for the inclusion of Edo Language in translatewiki.net. I want to translate into Edo Language. The ISO 639-2 Code for Edo Language is: "bin". I will appreciate if this request is favourably considered. Omorodion1 (talk) 22:08, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

I'll do it, thanks for the request. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:27, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Task for tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368857 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:45, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Done This is now enabled! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Omorodion1 (talk) 09:41, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Añadir el idioma maya Jakalteko/Popti'

Hola, quiero trabajar un proyecto, inclusión de un vocabulario en el idioma maya Jakalteko/Popti' en Wiktionary, les agradecería bastante la inclusión de mi idioma en la plataforma: "jac". Jakalteko/Popti'. Balunhnoh (talk) 15:52, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

¡Hola! Gracias por la solicitud. Lo haré pronto. Aquí está el lugar para seguir el progreso: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369095 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:16, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Done

¡He hecho esto! Ahora puede usted traducir a su idioma. ¡Por favor consulte las instrucciones en su página de usuario! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:26, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Requesting Waali language with language code=wlx to be added to Wikimedia

It would be an honor for Waali language with the language code=wlx to be added to the Wikimedia space. The Waali language holds immense significance for the community. It is the most spoken language within the Wa municipality, the regional capital and its surrounding towns and villages, and serves as a cornerstone of it’s cultural heritage. However, it faces a concerning reality – the spoken use of Waali is declining at an alarming rate.

This decline poses a serious threat to the future of the language. If left unchecked, the Waali language may face extinction, taking with it a valuable piece of natives’ cultural identity.

It is believed that the Wikimedia platform presents a powerful solution to preserve and revitalize Waali. By incorporating Waali into projects like Wikipidia and others. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 12:45, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the request! I'll do it soon.

A question: Many languages of Western Africa have additional letters in the alphabet. For example, Dagaare has ɛ, ɩ, ŋ, ɔ, and ʋ. Does Waali need any additional letters? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:56, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

No please. It is the same. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 20:06, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Task for tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368858 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:20, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Done This is now enabled! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:46, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

We humbly request that the language name “Waalii” with code;wlx should changed to Waale based on evidence from some books such as; Title: ZANNE FO KƆKƆRE (DAGAARE/WAALE)

Author: Saeed A. Faruk

Printed by: Taufique and Brothers Secretarial Service

Year: 2020

We believed that Waale was wrongly spelt by some people as “Waalii” or “Waali” Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 22:50, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Done This is now fixed to Waale. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:28, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Traduction en kihunde

S'il vous plaît, voudriez-vous m'ajoutez des sujets à traduire en Kihunde/ (Add support for me to Translate in Kihunde) ? Muisha wiki hke (talk) 05:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Done This is now enabled. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:25, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Message localization problem: MediaWiki:Discussiontools-pageframe-latestcomment/kaa

Dear All
Thank you for your continuous support.
I faced a problem with the translation of part of this message (MediaWiki:Discussiontools-pageframe-latestcomment/kaa) into Karakalpak (kaa) language. The message is already translated into Karakalpak itself (including $3, $2), but the part $1(*) is still not in Karakalpak (it's still in Cyrillic Kazakh (kk-cyrl), as it's the basic language for Karakalpak, please visit this page for evidence). I tried to find everywhere, I translated in kaa whatever I found about #time #ago, but I couldn't success in changing $1 into kaa during last 6-8 months. Maybe I couldn't find the correct original message for $1. Please support to find the original link for the $1 message so that I could translate it into kaa. Can somebody help with this issue or is it better to create a bug report on Phabricator directly?

*$1 – When the comment was posted, e.g. '1 hour ago'. This text is a link to the comment.

Ajiniyaz Nurniyazov (talk) 02:20, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

I ran a codesearch for that message name to see where it's used and it's in includes/CommentFormatter.php, which gives some idea as to what the parameters are and where they're coming from. It appears that DiscussionTools is using MediaWiki's core "human-friendly" timestamp formatting functions, so the messages you're probably looking for are MediaWiki:Ago/kaa and friends, e.g. MediaWiki:Seconds/kaa, MediaWiki:Minutes/kaa, MediaWiki:Hours/kaa, MediaWiki:Days/kaa, MediaWiki:Weeks/kaa, MediaWiki:Months/kaa, MediaWiki:Years/kaa.

Granted, of those only the seconds and minutes ones are untranslated and currently appear in Cyrillic, the rest you've already translated. As for why the months translation isn't live yet, I'm guessing that since you translated it rather recently (28th June), it hasn't yet been either exported back to the MediaWiki core repository (unlikely, I think exports for MediaWiki and MW-related things happen daily nowadays?) or not deployed onto Wikimedia Foundation wikis (this is the more likely option; I don't know how WMF deployments exactly work, so someone else can probably better answer your obvious follow-up question of "well, when is it going to be deployed, then?"). Jack Phoenix _(Contact) 12:00, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @Jack Phoenix for spending time and checking it. Your comments are partially correct, but messages MediaWiki:Years/kaa and MediaWiki:Week/kaa were translated by me last year. That's why I started to think, that there must be another messages about date and time, which I couldn't find. Fortunately Phabricator developers helped me to understand the issue fully: these time values are taken from external library - CLDR. Now I'm working with translations into kaa on CLDR. Anyway thank you for your effort. I have completed translation of MediaWiki:Seconds/kaa and MediaWiki:Minutes/kaa. With thanks Ajiniyaz Nurniyazov (talk) 18:40, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

This was also reported on Phabricator as phab:T368729, where I looked at it more closely and determined the content comes from CLDR instead of any of those sources. New translations are deployed to most Wikipedias on Thursday, and it appears there will be a deployment tomorrow despite it being the fourth of July. Which is irrelevant given the previous sentence, but interesting nevertheless. Pppery (talk) 15:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, thank you @Pppery. - Ajiniyaz Nurniyazov (talk) 18:43, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

FuzzyBot adding incorrect translations

I'm reviewing translations and saw that FuzzyBot has been adding English translations as if they were in Swedish (sv). Se this edit for instance: Special:Diff/12493062. The edit summary reads "Importing a new version from external source". Which external source? Does the bot collect translations somewhere where they haven't translated the units properly? If so, we shouldn't import translation units from that source. Sabelöga (talk) 13:27, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

It’s an initial import from https://github.com/OpenHistoricalMap/overpass-turbo/blob/main/locales/sv.json. Unfortunately, that file mixes English and Swedish strings without differentiating between them (it looks like the maintainers just added new strings with English “translations” to all translation files). I hope they’ll stop with this practice now that they have a professional translation service called translatewiki.net, but the existing wrong translations are still there. Of course, if you translate them for real here, your translation will be synchronized back and it won’t be overwritten with English in the future. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:58, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Of course, I'm going through the translations in Swedish, but I saw that the bot did the same for at least Norwegian and Danish. I don't feel comfortable in traslating those. Couldn't the bot remove the incorrect translations or someone from the admins go through the translations and remove untranslated translations? Sabelöga (talk) 00:48, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

I’m not sure if the bot is able to remove translations, but if it is, it can do so only by following up on updates to the GitHub repository, and as far as I’m aware, editing translations directly on GitHub (after the initial import to Translatewiki) is discouraged because it can lead to conflicts (e.g. if the Swedish translation is pruned together with the Norwegian and Danish ones), and resolving those is a manual and thus error-prone task. Someone from the admins going through the translations (or running a bot other than FuzzyBot through them) should probably work. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:58, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Change language name for Eastern Pwo (kjp)

I request that the language name ဖၠုံလိက် be changed to ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင်, read more about Eastern Pwo language name meaning below.

ဖၠုံ = Karen
ဖၠုံလိက် = Karen text
လိက် = Text
ဘာႋသာ့ = Language
ဆ်ုခၠါင် = speaking or speak, like (ဖၠုံဆ်ုခၠါင်=Speak Karen or Karen speaking)
ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင် = Eastern Pwo language or Karen language)

but Eastern Pwo language is very close to Mon language, so even a Mon people like me can understand it, I will show an example (Mon=ခၞံၚ် Eastern Pwo=ခၞံင့် Translation=Rice noodle) but I still have a lot of responsibility for the Eastern Pwo language on the wiki so I would like to request this language change, thanks.--𝓓𝓻.𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓪|𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀 12:42, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

I have different proposals for the name of this language:

Requested by the original translator User:Rul1902 on the page Thread:Support/Add_language_to_translate, confirmed there by another used, and set as the current name: ဖၠုံလိက်
Requested by you: ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင်
Gboard app: အရှေ့ဖလို
Ethnologue: ဖၠုံ, ဖၠုံယှိုဝ်

I really don't know what to choose.

The only options that have external references are Gboard and Ethnologue, although it's a problem that they are different from each other. The other two options don't have any clear references.

Does the name that you suggest appear in any reliable source? Can it be confirmed by other speakers of this language? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I will explain the easiest way for you to understand, Please note that ဖၠုံလိက် is not a language name, it is just an alphabet name, ဖၠုံလိက် is somewhat similar to (လိက်မန်/Mon text) in Mon language. my translation above about ဖၠုံလိက် is 100% correct, and အရှေ့ဖလို is not a text written in the Eastern Pwo language, it is a Burmese language, if you need your reference on ဖၠုံလိက်, please see this Facebook page link Shwe Pwo Karen, thanks. 𝓓𝓻.𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓪|𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀 06:35, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Does "ဖၠုံ" mean "Karen" or "Pwo"? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:17, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

(ပိုး Pwo and စကော S'gaw) is the name other ethnic groups call them, but there is no official usage in their language. regarding this case, it can be understood by studying the meaning of the vocabulary (စှီၤ၊ ဖျိၩ့၊ ဖၠုံ), The term vocabulary (စှီၤ၊ ဖျိၩ့၊ ဖၠုံ) is pronounced differently but means the same. Check out the translation below:

S'gaw Karen language = စှီၤ (Human, humanity), ကညီ (Karen), ကျိာ် (language), ကညီကျိာ် (Karen language)
Western Pwo language = ဖျိၩ့ (Karen), ၡိ (language), ဖျိၩ့ၡိ (Karen language)
Eastern Pwo language = ဖၠုံ or ဖၠုံး (Karen), ဖၠုံဘာႋသာ့ဆ်ုခၠါင် (Karen language)

in Burma, there are still many ethnic groups that have different names. this matter can only be known by writers like us who have studied and researched many languages. as an example, you can still look at terms from the Shan language, they are called (Shan ရှမ်း) by other tribes, but it is not officially used in their language, but only (Tai တႆး) is officially used in their language, I hope you understand that I have explained this much, thanks.--𝓓𝓻.𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓪|𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀 11:39, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Add Cyrillic script

Hello, I'm now working to translate in Dobrujan Tatar, I want to request to add the Cyrillic script also.

Code: crh-cyrl-ro

Name: Dobrujan Tatar (Cyrillic script)

Native name: татарша

Zolgoyo (talk) 20:05, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Is it actually used anywhere?

According to the English Wikipedia, it was "designed" and "used in one or two books", but was it used elsewhere?

Does anyone need it as a user interface language?

translatewiki.net is a place for translating user interface for software that people will actually use. Adding languages to our configuration requires work, and it should only be done for languages that are actually necessary. The translatewiki.net languages policy says that it has to be "a living language and a general purpose language". It looks like at this point, the Latin alphabet is actually used for this language, whereas the Cyrillic variant is not something that a lot of people need and use, but only an experiment, although you can try to convince us otherwise. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

If we consider that there are few books in the Dobruja Tatar language, it is not a surprising number. Also, I think this alphabet should be ignored. And probably Taner Murat wrote this alphabet thinking about the Tatars in Moldova and Ukraine, otherwise who knows Cyrillic in Romania? Here is a source, about the existence of Dobrujan Tatars in these regions. Zolgoyo (talk) 21:20, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Well that's exactly what I'm saying—do you use it yourself? Do you directly know anyone who does? It's probably true that there are people in Moldova and Ukraine who speak this language, but do they actually write it in the Cyrillic alphabet? Maybe they do, but I'd like to know this directly from them and not to guess it. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:28, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I use. And yes, I know people who use it. And also yes, they use Cyrillic script. Here is a example, made by me. Zolgoyo (talk) 22:02, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Are there examples made by other people? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:08, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

In Omniglot I found this:

Бүтүн инсанлар хакк, сэрбэстлік ўэ хукук боларак бір туўалар. Олар акыл ўэ ўиҗдан сахибі болалар ўэ бір-бірлэрінэ кардашлык зихинийэтінэн даўранмалары кэрэкір.

There is a YouTube Channel uses also Cyrillic sometimes. Zolgoyo (talk) 10:15, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Request for Abron/Bono language on Translatewiki

Please I'm humbly asking for Abron/Bono language to be added to translatewiki for localization. Thanks a lot Yaw tuba (talk) 16:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the request. Task for tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369464 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:00, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Done Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:06, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Support for translating Torwali (trw) language.

I need support for translating my mother language Torwali spoken in the Swat valley of Pakistan. Its code is "trw" and it is one of the endangered languages of Northern Pakistan. It is spoken by about 150,000 people, among them 90,000 are in the heartland in upper reaches of Swat while about 60,000 people have migrated to major cities of Pakistan in search of livelihood. Zulfi (talk) 21:59, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the request. Task for tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369578 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 23:54, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Done Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:07, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Vandalism

Luke Davidson has vandalized scores of messages. They seem to have a connection to Caden99. Can an administrator handle this? Thanks! Minh Nguyễn ^💬 04:13, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Done.

Thanks for the notification. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:29, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Adding Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (aii) to translatewiki.net

Hi there - any help w/ creating the task in phabricator would be super appreciated ColumbaBush (talk) 02:15, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the request!

I'll be happy to do the configuration for this, but I have a few questions:

This is for the current spoken and written language, right? We already have the messily defined "arc" and "syc" codes in our configuration, but if I understand correctly, these are for the ancient language. (For what it's worth, perhaps you'll find some value in the current translations into "arc". The translations may be correct, but the language may be ancient, and "syc" may be a more appropriate code for it.)
Follow-up to the previous question: is this different from the language in the site that is currently called "Aramaic Wikipedia"? (I know that there are several languages written in this alphabet and called "Aramaic" or "Syriac". I learned Biblical Aramaic in university, but I never learned the varieties written in the Aramaic alphabet, so unfortunately I can't tell them apart.)
How is this different from the codes "cld" (Chaldean) and "syr" (which includes both "aii" and "cld")? According to the English Wikipedia article, they are all the same thing, but perhaps this is wrong.
Which native label would be the best to use? I can find:
- ܣܘܪܝܬ: English Wikipedia (with no external reference), Gboard app, and assyrianlanguages.org dictionary (although it somewhat confusingly says "more often ܠܸܫܵܢܵܐ ܕܣܘܼܪܹܝܬ݂ is used")
- ܐܬܘܪܝܐ: Ethnologue and Russian-Assyrian Dictionary (1993, Shumanov)
- ܣܘܪܬ: Ethnologue
Are there any other websites in this language? Or in this language and in one or more others?

I want to be sure that we get it right as early as possible, because otherwise it will be hard to fix later ;)

Thanks! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 03:46, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

yes, this is for the current spoken and written language. thanks for sharing the translations - there's quite a bit of words aii borrows from classical syriac https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic_terms_borrowed_from_Classical_Syriac so we can definitely look into those translations
yes - https://arc.wikipedia.org/ refers to classical syriac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_language, it should probably have used the domain name https://syc.wikipedia.org/ instead
cld and aii share the same grammar (verb conjugations, noun inflections, etc...) and writing systems but in cld certain words might be spelled with ܬ݂ instead of ܬ or /ʕ/ may be more emphatically pronounced. they're the same language just different accents. cld typically refers to the accent with which ethnic assyrians from iraq (not exclusively chaldean, ex. syriac catholic) speak. syr seems to refer to what encompasses both aii and cld. i feel like these language codes are confusingly classified but this is my interpretation of what they are trying to communicate
wiktionary has a transliterator which works for the vocalized spellings https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module_talk:aii-translit so you can plug in the unvocalized spelling to get an approximation.
- vocalized spelling of ܣܘܪܝܬ is ܣܘܼܪܝܼܬ݂ surith, which is a shorter way of saying ܣܘܼܪܵܐܝܼܬ݂ sura'eeth. see the etymology here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DC%A3%DC%98%DC%AA%DC%90%DC%9D%DC%AC#Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic. under dervied terms you can see this suffix applied to other languages https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-%DC%90%DC%9D%DC%AC#Derived_terms. ܠܸܫܵܢܵܐ ܕܣܘܼܪܹܝܬ݂ lishana dsureth directly translates to "language of sureth"
- ܐܬܘܪܝܐ atoraya is just a different spelling of ܐܫܘܪܝܐ ashoraya https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DC%90%DC%AB%DC%98%DC%AA%DC%9D%DC%90#Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic. they both mean assyrian people
- vocalized spelling of ܣܘܪܬ is ܣܘܼܪܸܬ݂ surith, a variant of the first sub bullet but it replaces the the yudh+khwasa with a zlama horizontal - this abbreviation technique is generally not used because it removes the etymological indicators in the spelling.
- all said my preference is for the first one ܣܘܪܝܬ

thanks so much for taking the time to ask all these clarifying questions, hope i was able to be helpful ColumbaBush (talk) 14:41, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

yeah there are some websites, i think https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic_language and https://www.bible.com/bible/1080/MAT.1.AII are the two most accurate for vocalized spelling, let me know if you need more ColumbaBush (talk) 14:43, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi! This is mostly done now. You can start translating.

Right now, you may experience some issues related to right-to-left (RTL) writing and selecting the language using the "Translate to" button. They are already fixed in the code, but it will take a few days to deploy them. By the end of next week, they should all be fixed. However, I wanted to let you start doing things as quickly as possible :)

I've added a list of projects that should be translated if you want to develop a Wikipedia in this language to your user page under the title "Links for Assyrian Neo-Aramaic". You can get to your user page by clicking your username at the top of the page. The first item, "Most important / Most used" is a requirement for "graduating" out of the Incubator, so I recommend starting from it. The rest of the list is not a requirement according to the current rules, but it is nevertheless recommended to translate them some day.

The bottom of the list has Guides that I recommend reading, about terminology, translating practices, etc.

Good luck! :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

thank you - this will give us some runway in the coming days

{{User:Amire80/MW high prio links|language_code=aii}} is awesome - i can't imagine how many people it's helped ColumbaBush (talk) 05:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Done - the RTL and search issues I've mentioned are supposed to be fixed now. If you find any other technical issues that get in the way of writing in your language, please let me know. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:03, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

thank you again, i see the rtl now

im going to try to bring onboard some more translators ColumbaBush (talk) 01:59, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Title-invalid-empty should be reworded

The message currently reads, "The requested page title is empty or contains only the name of a namespace." To me, it needs a correction as "name of a namespace" is not specific (the page titles "MediaWiki" and "Help" are valid despite being names of a namespace).

I suggest rewording the message to "The requested page title is empty or contains only a namespace prefix." as a namespace prefix contains a colon after the name of a namespace. Qwrop (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Filed as phab:T370434 Pppery (talk) 16:21, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

[msi] Request to add new language: Sabah Malay - 'Cakap Sabah'

The purpose of the request is to have Sabah Malay interface in Wikimedia projects especially multilingual projects like Wikidata.

English name: Sabah Malay Native name: Cakap Sabah or Bahasa Sabah ISO 639-3 code: msi Directionality: LTR Script: Latin

~Thank you Tofeiku (talk) 17:04, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the request. Task for tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370355 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 02:49, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Done This is now enabled. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:13, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for enabling it. Sabah Malay would be in Asia. Tofeiku (talk) 05:35, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

There may be some minor issues about the appearance of this language in the language selector until the full software update deployment in the next few days. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

do not duplicate when translation suggestions are the same

On the right panel of "The task is disabled" :

Field label for Suggested Edits in Community configuration

Modifier la documentation

Suggestions

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100 % de correspondance

utilisé 3 fois

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MinT

Besoin d’aide ?Demander plus d’informations

-- Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 09:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

The suggestions are duplicated when they come from different sources; if they come from other messages here in Translatewiki, they are consolidated (i.e. "utilisé 3 fois"), but if they come from other sources like Google Translate or MinT, they are shown with duplication. Personally, I find this distinction useful, because it shows that multiple sources agree (or disagree) on what is probably a correct translation. If they had all been consolidated into just one message, it would be easier to miss that agreement. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 17:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

ok, on the other side if everyone agrees there is only one way suggested and we dont spend time to guess differences between the different suggestions. Let us keep it as it is. I must congratulate nevertheless Mint which provides translations very close from natural FR language. Big step done ! Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 17:26, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

please no pipe with single brackets !

Check the message -> MediaWiki:Communityconfiguration-communityupdates-info-text/fr

This [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_Updates|Community Updates]] module will display on the homepage and should be used to share important community news, campaigns, events, or WikiProjects. Priority should be given to updates that support the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Identify_Topics_for_Impact#Changes_and_Actions|2030 Movement strategy’s “Topics for Impact”] recommendation. As you see -> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Identify_Topics_for_Impact#Changes_and_Actions%7C2030 is not a valid url

It is strange it has passed through to translatewiki.net Please send it back for correction before submitting again for translation. Correct form should be with the pipe removed as :

[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Identify_Topics_for_Impact#Changes_and_Actions 2030 Movement strategy’s “Topics for Impact”] recommendation.

Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 16:39, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

@Wladek92: Thanks for the report, I have submitted a fix. We're all human (well, most of us anyways), and this is a small easy mistake to make. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 17:02, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

ok good, merci. Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 17:18, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

br html tags used improperly

Hi all . Check following message -> MediaWiki:Growthexperiments-edit-config-try-suggested-edits-notification-description/fr

Maximum number of edits a newcomer can have to qualify for receiving this notification. If set to 0, no newcomers </br> will receive this notification. The higher the number, the more newcomers will receive this notification.<br> This notification is only sent to newcomers who have not completed Suggested edits.

It is not allowed to have a closing tag opening the tag pair. At best use a single self closing tag <br /> or nothing at all. Some other translated messages of this group hold also the br tags (sorry have not traced them). Please check through, correct source and resend for translation. Thanks. Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 14:32, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

"카테고리들" invades!

Your system changed {{PAGE:분류|분류}} to {{PAGE:분류|카테고리들}} in ko.wikipedia over and over again. Our administrators roll back it evrytime, but the recover has delay for systemic process, and meanwhile, users feel embarrassment.

It is happened that someone translates "Categories" to "카테고리들" for Korean language in this site. However, ko.wikipedia already has "분류" to use for that. I cannot understand why your site changes the established word without any confirm or recognition in the community. If there are no different meaning on the both translated words, and of course not, it is still very important matter that who chooses the usage of words in their communities.

So, I can say this is invation! And I feel some kind of distinction on this case. If I change {{PAGE:Category|Categories}} to {{PAGE:Category|grouping}} in en.wikipedia, what's going on its community? Your site sets itself to translate from English to other laguages, not reverse. So, I'm writting this complaint in English for your understanding. By the way, can you show your respect for non-english languages?

Please, stop change the massages, words, variables and others in Korean Wikipedia without our communty's confirm.

-- Jjw (talk) 06:50, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

You are probably referring to the page MediaWiki:Pagecategories/ko. It was changed recently from "분류" to "카테고리|카테고리들" by @Suleiman the Magnificent Television, and it was already fixed by users @Ykhwong and @이강철.

This site is giving a platform for localization to volunteer translators from all languages in the wiki spirit of "anyone can edit". This means that translation can be done efficiently, but mistakes occasionally happen.

I recommend that somebody regularly checks new translations into Korean using the Proofread (교정됨) button in the sidebar. It should be done by one or more people who know Korean well and who are experienced with wiki editing.

Specifically about this case, can anyone please check the other edits of @Suleiman the Magnificent Television? If that user's translations are generally good, but they made one mistake, someone should explain them how to do it correctly (in fact, @Ykhwong already did it). If they made many bad translations, it's possible to block that user. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:31, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Translations

I translated many words to Dhivehi wiki, however the results (translated words) as still not showing up on the wiki. Can someone explain how it works in a few sentences, or what should i do next. MAL MALDIVE (talk) 19:05, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your translations!

The translations won't appear on your wiki immediately. They are deployed to live wikis once a week. If all goes well, you will see them on your wiki on Friday morning next week (August 2).

Just continue doing what you are doing. You are doing everything correctly. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:55, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Codex

Did I do something incorrect in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/translatewiki/+/1050496 ?

There are quite a lot of translations for the MediaWiki Codex group: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:MessageGroupStats?group=mediawiki-codex&messages=&suppressempty=1&language=he&x=D

But none of them are in Gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/heads/master/languages/i18n/codex/

@Abijeet Patro, @Raymond. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 02:05, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

It needs to be added to mediawiki section in repoconfig.yaml file in order to enable exports. You can search for mediawiki-installer as an example

Regards, Abijeet Patro (talk) 05:11, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/translatewiki/+/1056273 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 05:14, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Change my username

Targeted username: SongNgu.xyz
Alternative if can't be accepted for some reason: Song Ngư

Pisceskaze (talk) 18:44, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Done Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:55, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Cleanup missed markup change

I noticed that 139 translations of Special:Translations/MediaWiki:Mainpagedocfooter are missing a change that was made to the source text in 2015 (changing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents to https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents). Anyone want to do a Special:ReplaceText run to tidy that up? Pppery (talk) 20:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

@Pppery Done. Raymond 07:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Delete old copyright warnings

Could the following very old messages be deleted?

The source text has drifted so much that the translations are IMO actively misleading if they're ever displayed at this point. Thanks. Pppery (talk) 01:53, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Done I updated three of them and moved the rest under User:Amire80/museum. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 02:27, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Typo on Wikimedia:Wikipedia-android-strings-patroller saved message body coi rem/en

There's a typo in this translation unit, there should be a space between the two sentances: "...are in a conflict of interest.A conflict of interest...". Sabelöga (talk) 14:39, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I submitted a fix for review here: https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia/pull/4845 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:16, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Excellent, thank you! :) Sabelöga (talk) 15:21, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Several messages in the MediaWiki GlobalBlocking message group are not marked as outdated when they should be

Some message keys in the GlobalBlocking message group were renamed, but this rename meant that some of the old translations were used (which are now out of date). For example, MediaWiki:Globalblocking-block/el is not marked as outdated in the Special:Translate tool, yet the source message changed in Special:Diff/12552502.

Is there a way to mark all translations of a given message as outdated to fix this? Dreamy Jazz (talk) 11:51, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dreamy Jazz Probably my error when importing the changes. I have to choose to fuzzy or not to fuzzy. But I have no idea how to fuzzy all afterwards :-( Raymond 08:32, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

I guess one idea would be to make a patch in gerrit that modifies the en.json text for these messages, and then reverts that change once translatewiki.net has synced the changes? Would need to avoid doing this around the time of the train split. Dreamy Jazz (talk) 08:42, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dreamy Jazz Hacky solution. But hopefully @Nikerabbit can do it with a script? Raymond 15:53, 31 July 2024 (UTC)