User:Pintupi Luritja Guy

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piu-N This user has a native understanding of Pintupi-Luritja. en-5 This user has professional knowledge of English. pjt-3 This user has advanced knowledge of Pitjantjatjara.
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Links for Pintupi-Luritja

• Most used / Most important
• Messages that need updating or fixing: please check every message and make necessary fixes before confirming it!
• Codex - common interface components
• Vector - the default desktop skin
• Portals - wikipedia.org home page
• Universal Language Selector - component
• Universal Language Selector - extension
• Discussion Tools
• Babel
• Mobile website:
  • Page Content Service - strings for all mobile interfaces
  • MinervaNeue - the mobile web skin
  • MobileFrontend - the mobile web interface
• Visual Editor (the titles don't matter; all these parts must be translated for the complete Wikipedia Visual editor experience):
  • VisualEditor - OOJS
  • VisualEditor - WMF
  • VisualEditor - core
  • VisualEditor - MediaWiki
  • VisualEditor - Citoid
  • VisualEditor - Cite
• WikiEditor
• Wikibase client - integration of Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Incubator (this is not a high priority if the wiki in your language has already graduated from the Incubator)
• Wikibase Lexeme - dictionary information in Wikidata
• ContentTranslation
• UploadWizard
• Wikipedia Android app
• Wikipedia iOS app (You can skip this if iPhone is not common among the speakers of your language)
• Commons Android App
• Wikibase repo - Wikidata.org website
• Echo - also known as "Notifications"
• ProofreadPage - Wikisource (You can skip it if you don't need Wikisource)
• Extensions used by Wikimedia - main
• Core MediaWiki
• Extensions used by Wikimedia - Advanced
• Extensions used by Wikimedia - Media

Guides:

• Basic MediaWiki glossary | Translate the glossary
• General localization guidelines
• General guidelines for translating MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia
• Amir Aharoni's tips for translation

Tools:

• Language portal

Challenges with translating

One of the biggest challenges I faced when translating MediaWiki into Pintupi-Luritja was the need to create new words for wiki-related concepts, instead of just using a bunch of English words.

Many of course are just transliterated from English (from the original word or from a synonym; e.g tjiiyinytji for "edit", transliterated from "change") while others are new words with Pintupi-Luritja grammar (e.g palyalpali for "user"; palyala = "use", -palyi = "person who does something"), for many I decided to use an existing word and give it another meaning. For example, for "administrator" I decided to use mayutju, which means "boss" or "manager" (a loan from English); for "history" I used yara which means "story"; and for "licence" I used wituṉi, which means "allow".