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The following issue is open, waiting for action.

Hi, there would be someone who could help me, I have as a project a new Wikipedia that is in the incubator of Wikimedia and I want to know what to do on this site with regard to my language, because I have already created the portal of the language but I don't know what to do after...?!

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

See Translatewiki.net_languages#Enabling_a_new_language_for_localisation_at_translatewiki.net. We can use French as secondary (fallback) language, right?

Nemo (talk)

Yes but if I use French as a secondary language what will be in French on the Guianan Wikipedia ?

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

Hi everyone, there would be someone who would activate the translation for my language please ?!

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

why no one answers me, it's been nearly a month that I ask the same question and no one answers me ?

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

If French is the fallback language, the interface of the Wikipedia will be in French where it's not translated.

Nemo (talk)

why my language is not part of the active languages, without that I can not translate anything in Kréyòl Gwiyanè (Guianan Creole) !!!

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

In the meantime, you can write a MessagesGcr.php file (french example).

If nobody else answers here, you may open a Phabricator task with "MediaWiki-Internationalization" tag.

Pols12 (talk)

I don't know how to write a MessageGcr file I have to look but I have not found !

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

Why translatewiki.net doesn't support my language so I can start translating what to translate ???

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

To write MessageGcr file, you only have to replace French translations after arrows (=>) by Creole translations. For example, the first variable corresponds to namespaces.

The second variable is aliases and can be empty, like this: $namespaceAliases = [ ];.

Etc.

Pols12 (talk)

Yes I see what you want me to translate, but I don't know this site, when I type this (link), there is nothing that tells me to create this page or this message, this site is not like Wikipedia, I don't know how to use it!

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

Sorry, I have not been clear. You do not have to create this file on the repository.

I only wanted to advise you to prepare this file. You can for example create it as a local file on your computer or as a wiki subpage of Gcr portal. A developer will post your file when it will be time, don’t worry. ;)

Pols12 (talk)

I have opened the task for you, hoping it can help you to receive an answer more quickly.

Pols12 (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

Hi everyone!

Would like to request support for Kumyk language.

Portal link: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Kum

Looking forward to your reply

Thanks

Arsenekoumyk (talk)

I am supporting this request. This user is one from active participants of test Kumyk Wikipedia in the incubator:.

Kaganer (talk)

I am supporting this request.

Рустам Нурыев (talk)

Fallback to Russian? English? Or others?

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

Could you please specify what fallback means within Wikipedia? Or link me to the info? Thanks a lot

Got it.

Fallback to Russian, next to English. Thanks

Arsenekoumyk (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

There are soooo many API-specific messages, and they will only be read by a tiiiiiny fraction of the people who use MediaWiki. I'd like to focus on translating anything else, but as far as I know there's no way to do that. Would it be possible to implement something to filter them out from Special:Translate (and the stats at Special:LanguageStats)?

Jon Harald Søby (talk)

I second that.

Macofe (talk)

The following issue is closed by Nemo_bis (chase).

The popup thing that is supposed to warn you about the importance of edit summaries actually eats them if you submit the edit form via keyboard.

Tgr (talk)

Or the "publish" bottom at the top of the edit form (which is what a keyboard submit falls back to as the first submit element), instead of the "save" at the bottom.

Tgr (talk)

Thanks for reporting. What do you suggest/plan to do? Did you report this on phabricator with more details in the meanwhile?

Nemo (talk)

T111670. I suggest removing $wgDefaultUserOptions['wikieditor-publish'] = 1; from the TranslateWiki configuration; it seems to be a thoroughly useless feature.

Tgr (talk)

Thanks, now I understand. I never use WikiEditor so I had no idea those buttons existed.

Nemo (talk)

I don't find such a setting in the current or past configuration for twn. Hmm.

Nemo (talk)

Tested with a new account and it indeed defaults to off. Maybe I just enabled it manually a long time ago and forgot it (it's the "Enable step-by-step publishing" option in Editing > Labs features btw). Sorry for the noise.

Tgr (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

When creating new topic on e.g. https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Template_talk:PLURAL, after typing something and clicking "Show preview", I get Leave–Stay window (in Chrome: "Changes you made may not be saved."). Same happens when saving or leaving talk page after saving.

Also, after I saved this thread / new topic here on Support and tried to leave page, I got Leave–Stay window (after choosing to Leave, message was saved indeed – so conclusion is that something is 'false-positive' creating this). Editing this comment is fine, no Leave–Stay window.

Obsuser (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

Hi, there would be someone who could help me, I have as a project a | new Wikipedia that is in the incubator of Wikimedia and I want to know what to do on this site with regard to my language, because I have already created the portal of the language but I don't know what to do after...?!

Michaelobregon (talk)

Soooooooooo:

• Language code: qwh
• Language name: Huaylas Ancash Quechua – (which autonym?!)
• Direction: LTR
• Script: Latin
• (fallback to which language?!)

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

The Huaylas Ancash Quechua is a language diferentes than Quechua . Quechua is not a only language , Quechua is a macrolanguage , Ayacucho Quechua is different than Cajamarca Quechua and is different than Huaylas Quechua Example: A.Q Punchaw = day H.Q Hanaq = day C.Q P'unchaw = day Ayacucho Quechua is similar to Cusco Quechua for those languages there is an only alphabet Example Mariaq = Maria's Mariap = Maria's Southern Quechua Alphabet Mariap = Maria's Other example : A.Q Ñuqanchik C.Q Nuqanchik

En = We( inclusive)

Michaelobregon (talk)

The following issue is closed.

Why my language is not part of the active languages, without that I can not translate anything in Kréyòl Gwiyanè (Guianan Creole) !!!

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

I think you should ask this question to @Amire80:

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

Hi!

I would like to view a message which has parameters, in order to check its syntax.

For exemple, MediaWiki:Notification-header-mention-status-bundle/fr has many imbricated magic words, it would be nice to test it, previewing a draft page.

Is there a template created for this goal?

Pols12 (talk)

You can use the mw:int magic word on any page, is that enough?

Nemo (talk)

Thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately, I can’t use {{int:}} magic word because it includes the "official" translation and not the last edit.

With the given example, today {{int:}} displays a message starting with "Parmi" whereas the last version starts with "Concernant".

Pols12 (talk)

The following issue is closed.

Just a FYI

Interesting?!

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

This language code reflects a macrolanguage, it includes Eastern Mari (mhr) and Western Mari (mrj), and both member languages are already having Wikipedias now (w:mhr: and w:mrj:). So it's clearly that no i18n files should be created in this macro code.

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

The following issue is closed.

Please, do not create duplicate threads any more, continue discussing at Thread:Support/NEED_YOUR_HELP_PLEASE_!!!

Hi everyone, there would be someone who would activate the translation for my language please ?!

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

Hi,

I occasionaly stumble upon cases like this one : Wikimedia:Pageviews-num-languages/br

The translation is created, then the source message is modified but it doesn't affect the translation which should remain the same (in this case, the Breton language doesn't mark the plural after a number). But as there is no change, I can't validate the translation.

How should I do in this very particular cases?

VIGNERON (talk)

This is because since a while ago the fuzzy markers are only in the database, not in revision text. I think you could try and save the translation with the !!FUZZY!! sign which gets inserted, then save again without it.

Nemo (talk)

I tried something else : « $1 yezh ». Is it correct ?

VIGNERON (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

On Special:RecentChanges, Special:RecentChangesLinked and Special:Watchlist there are two date sections for one day.

\m/etalhead ✉

Who's there?

\m/etalhead ✉

Can confirm. Would you mind reporting this to Wikimedia Phabricator and say that this is a regression caused by changes in core that broke CleanChanges extension?

Nike (talk)

I don't want a further account.

\m/etalhead ✉

You can log in with a Wikipedia/Mediawiki account.

Macofe (talk)

The following issue is closed.

Where is this translated?.

Умар (talk)

Rcfilters-days-show-days ("$1 days") for $1 days, and Rcfilters-days-show-hours ("$1 hours") for $1 hours

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action by Vickylin77s (chase).

Waiting for activity and translators on the existing supported languages and more information of the expected activity in the others.

Hello, I'm Vicky, assistant of Center for Aboriginal Studies(ALCD). Now we are incubating some Wikipedia for languages of Indigenous Taiwanese. The page on incubator says that we need to localize into our language.

Indigenous Taiwanese have 16 ethnic groups, 15 languages. Now we are going to localize 10 languages. They areː

Bunun - isoːbnn Hla'alua - isoːsxr Kavalan - isoːckv Kanakanavu - isoːxnb Paiwan - iso:pwn Puyuma - iso:pyu Rukai - iso:dru Tao - iso:tao Thao - iso:ssf Tsou - iso:tsu Please help us. Thank you.

Vickylin77s (talk)

When you say "we are going to localize 10 languages", do you mean you already have translators and resources to translate MediaWiki core fully?

Nemo (talk)

Maybe asking @Akamycoco:? Anyway I created portal pages like before.

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

I suggest that you start by making your translators register here and help them translate the existing supported languages. Despite being added months ago they all have zero or near-zero translations, except tay which has a small amount of translations (about 300, compared to ~3000 in MediaWiki core).

Nemo (talk)

We organized three-day workshops several times in July and August for translating Wikipedia pages, and there are two reasons why we edit pages slowly: First, editors are not good at using computer, most of them are elders. Second, many words or terminologies do not have translation in indigenous languages, editors need to discuss with their tribal members or need to come up with translation. Generally, the work is in progress.

Vickylin77s (talk)

Sure. Translating MediaWiki should be easier (at least for the least technical terms), because the interface is more friendly and there are no special policies to take into account. So I encourage you to make them try translatewiki.net in the next workshops you have (on the languages which are already enabled).

Nemo (talk)

Thanks for your advice! We will try it in the following workshop.

Vickylin77s (talk)

"Tao - iso:tao" why not saying it as Yami?

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

Anyway, as some small steps, I requested Wikidata monolingual codes requests, see tasks phab:T174227 to phab:T174238 of phab:T144272

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)

I uploaded patch on gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/374052/

But need +2 to changes be deployed.

Zoranzoki21 (talk)

The following issue is closed.

Hi all,

In the english original text:

You can see the progress of different language versions here. If you're new to translatewiki.net, after you sign up, it'll ask you to do 20 small example translations. This is a sort of extended "prove you know what you're doing test"; it takes about 10 minutes. Once your account is approved, visit this page and pick the language you're translating to in the top right corner.

Sentence : This is a sort of extended "prove you know what you're doing test";

shouldn't rather be replaced by: This is a sort of extended "prove you know what you're doing" test;

?. Thanks .

Christian (talk)

You're quite right, Christian, good catch! Corrected in the English source.

Eloquence (talk)

ok thanks - french version aligned according to the proposal.

Christian (talk)

The following issue is closed.

You have not translator right here. Dupe of Thread:Support/NEED_YOUR_HELP_PLEASE_!!!

Why my language is not in translatewiki.net, I cant translate Nothing on my language : https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?group=%21additions&language=fr&filter=%21translated&action=translate

LeGuyanaisPure (talk)

The following issue is closed by Nemo_bis (chase).

Hey, can someone please change my username from User:Ece Alpdeniz --> User:AliceJ because my current username is my real name and i could not find a page about changing username. Thank you

Ece Alpdeniz (talk)

The following issue is open, waiting for action.

This message should be "Show differences", since the current message "Show changes", look very alike to the near button "Publish changes" or "Save changes", which can easily cause mistake: clicking the wrong button.

Ans (talk)

Are there any comments?

Ans (talk)

Or possibly "Check differences"?

dcljr (talk)

Is there any progress on this issue?

Ans (talk)

Apparently a Phabricator task would be necessary to make the change, if a consensus can even be reached about this, since English messages cannot be translated here, as alluded to ("one of the developers at the project concerned will change the message") at FAQ#Improving the English source message. I don't think this is actually the best place to discuss such a change. Try Translating talk:MediaWiki instead.

dcljr (talk)