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:

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.