mediawiki/translate

The only standard solution to translate any kind of text with an avant-garde web interface within MediaWiki, including your documentation and software

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Requires

• composer/installers: >=1.0.1
• mustangostang/spyc: ^0.6.3

Requires (Dev)

• mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer: 48.0.0
• mediawiki/mediawiki-phan-config: 0.17.0
• mediawiki/minus-x: 1.1.3
• php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter: 1.0.0
• php-parallel-lint/php-parallel-lint: 1.4.0
• slevomat/coding-standard: ^8.8

Suggests

• mediawiki/babel: Users can easily indicate their language proficiency on their user page
• mediawiki/translation-notifications: Manage communication with translators
• romaricdrigon/metayaml: If you want to validate message group configurations

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Niklas Laxström
• Siebrand Mazeland
• Santhosh Thottingal
• Amir E. Aharoni
• Abijeet Patro

• i18n
• translation
• l10n
• localization
• g11n
• internationalization
• mediawiki
• translatewiki.net
• m17n

README

The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every
kind of text. It's used especially to translate software user interfaces and
to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.

## Copying
See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.html>

## Installation
For a very very quick start add the following to LocalSettings.php:

```php
wfLoadExtension( 'Translate' );
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate-messagereview'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['pagetranslation'] = true;
```

More documentation is at
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Installation>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Configuration>

## Contributing
To translate this extension go to https://translatewiki.net and sign up.

To contribute features, fixes and code maintenance, please see
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Code_of_Conduct>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Getting_started_with_development>

There is also a dedicated Translate and translatewiki.net development
environment, see
* <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/translatewiki/+/refs/heads/master/puppet/README>

Known bugs and feature requests are collected and reported at
* <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-translate/>

You can chat with the developers at #wikimedia-language on Libera Chat IRC.