Help talk:Translating

Fix link to the Translation MediaWiki extension
Maybe more proper link is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate ?


 * I think so, too. (The link should be changed according to the previous suggestion.) At least there lies the documentation of the extension.
 * -- SebastianSchmid (talk) 15:59, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

How to translate templates?
How should templates like Template:Note, Template:Important and Template:Warning be translated? Should they be translated like "normal" articles with,   and   tags? Or is this a bad idea?

I haven't found a template which is translated like this yet. (Therefore there is no "language selection bar" and no "Translate this page" link at the top of the template page.) Is there a reason why?

-- SebastianSchmid (talk) 17:38, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

What's the right way to caption a translated site?
There are some different naming schemes in use at the moment.

Example:

The origin page is Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks (the same caption "Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks" is used at this site).

The translated versions are as follows:
 * Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/de - caption: "Handbuch:X86/Blöcke/Festplatten"
 * Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/es - caption: "Manual de Gentoo: X86/Bloques/Discos"
 * Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/ja - caption: "ハンドブック:X86/ブロック/ディスク"
 * Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/ko - caption: "Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/ko"
 * Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/ru - caption: "Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks"

Based on this, there are some main naming strategies:
 * 1) No change at all (e.g. ru: "Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks")
 * 2) Only the language code is appended (e.g. ko</tt>: "Handbook:X86/Blocks/Disks/ko</tt>")
 * 3) Translated caption (e.g. de</tt>: "Handbuch:X86/Blöcke/Festplatten</tt>", it's similar at es</tt> or ja</tt>)
 * 4) Completely free translated caption (e.g.: "Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbuch</tt>" instead of "Handbook:AMD64</tt>" at Handbook:AMD64/de)

What's the right naming scheme that should be used?

-- SebastianSchmid (talk) 14:33, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

I, the Korean translator, thought that the caption has meaning of documentation path(idea has delivered from each pages' naming scheme), and there is currently no rule to replace a caption being on each page. so I can't say what naming scheme is better. I'll follow the rule if someone suggests a better idea and many persons agreed for that.

-- Darkcircle (talk) 15:12, 6 January 2015 (UTC)