Overcome export message limit

Overcome export message limit

Hello,

in order to feed a compendium of Catalan translation memories https://www.softcatala.org/recursos/memories/ , a colleague who is taking care of this task commented to me that he could not retrieve the whole messages of one of the projects in this siste (MediaWiki Extensions).

https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:ExportTranslations&language=ca&group=ext-0-all

  The chosen message group is too large. Choose a message group that has fewer than 10.000 messages or contact translation admin for advice.

How would you recommend overcoming this limitation? Preferably in a programmatic manner...

Thanks!

Toniher (talk)10:07, 23 October 2021

Hello,

when we try to export translations for group "MediaWiki Extensions" ("ext-0-all", about 38,000 messages), export fails with this message:

The chosen message group is too large. Choose a message group that has fewer than 10.000 messages or contact translation admin for advice.

Also if we try to export translations for only "Extensions used by Wikipedia" ("ext-0-wikimedia", about 19,800 messages), export fails with same message.

We use this page to export translations:

https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:ExportTranslations?group=ext-0-all&language=ca&format=export-as-po
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:ExportTranslations?group=ext-0-wikimedia&language=ca&format=export-as-po

Does anybody know any solution to bypass this limit?

Thank you!

Txemaq (talk)20:17, 1 November 2021