Recommended process for translating MediaWiki
Hey Ahmed-Najib-Biabani-Ibrahimkhel. It is great to see you translating again. Please have a look at the below part of Translating:How to start. From what I can see, your focus on which translations may render the highest results at the moment for the Pashto localisation of MediaWiki may be off. Of course, feel free to use any system for translating you like; in essence any translation is valuable!
- first translate the most often used messages
- complete the core messages
- translate the extension messages used in Wikimedia wikis
- translate the remaining extension messages
Hello Siebrand! I am the main person behind the localization project in pashto language. I have just finished the most often used messages. I dont know how i can apply for bounty. I had applied for bounty before as well but for some unknown reason i was not found eligible to get my bounty. Now you can update the moste often messages for all wikis in pashto language namely wikipedia, wiktionary, wikibooks. and please guide me to get my bounty.
thanks
At the moment no projects are running that can get you a bounty...
Just thought it might be a good idea to remind you again of this thread. I still see you translating all over the place. Like I said before: each translation helps, but if you finish for example MediaWiki and the MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia before moving on to contributing to other products, you will also have more similar texts to work on, allowing to to ease your flow and be more productive.
Have a look at Project:MediaWiki localisation in the 50 most spoken languages. I would love it if ps got to for example 80 points.
Hello Siebrand!
Would you mind changing the direction of the main page of translatewiki for Pashto language from Right to Left. This language is written from RTL order and It has been a while since i am trying to localize the different projects, sometimes i face difficulties finding the proper words used for certain entries, thats why i am jumping to other projects and try to localize the enteries that are easily translated.
Cheers
We are still looking for a solution for the main page. It's not easily done at the moment.
Yes now it is as it should be. In case I find any bugs I'll let u know about it. --Ahmed-Najib-Biabani-Ibrahimkhel 21:20, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
By the way, have you seen how Pashto scores on the list of "50 largest languages represented within Wikimedia"? It's currently #19 among the Asian languages on that list, and #34 (shared with Swahili) overall with regard to localisation completeness. Thanks for all your help for that, and I hope the current score of 65 will keep growing! Tip: translating MediaWiki core messages gives the most points at the moment.