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
<niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 21 May 2013 14:13, Nick White
<nick.white(a)durham.ac.uk> 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%2F…
-Niklas
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