I added a section "Messages that should not be translated" to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Message_documentation , with this information, plus the standard comments people appened to En, the {{optional}} in Qqq, the system messageTypes.inc file, etc.
These are my observations of the conventions in use, so fix any mistakes! On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Niklas Laxström <[email protected]>wrote: > On 21 May 2013 14:13, Nick White <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an extension (a skin, actually, but functionally it's exactly > > the same) which makes use of system messages to allow administrators > > to add extra content to some areas of wiki pages. So by default the > > messages are empty, and should never be translated. > > > > You can see this in the Erudite.i18n.php change at > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62623/ > > If your extension/skin is translated at translatewiki.net, you can > submit a patch against [1]. It has examples of that (search for > ignored). If you are talking about translating somewhere else, it > depends how you have configured the message group. > > [1] > https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/translatewiki.git/HEAD/groups%2FMediaWiki%2Fmediawiki-defines.txt > > -Niklas > > > -- > Niklas Laxström > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n > -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments
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