The link to the full comment contains a lot more information and context. This task focuses to the technical improvements required in Phabricator to allow Wikimedia and other Phabricator users to T225: Use translatewiki.net to localize Phabricator unofficially, at their own discretion.
Guideline: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:New_project
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | Aklapper | T103465 Global user pages should propagate to phabricator profiles | |||
| Declined | None | T103466 Phabricator profiles should be localizable | |||
| Declined | None | T141457 blog.wikimedia.org post on Phabricator improvements | |||
| Resolved | • mmodell | T137727 Write blog post highlighting recent Phabricator improvements | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T136213 Complete the round of Phabricator improvements funded by Wikimedia | |||
| Resolved | Qgil | T128448 Technical Collaboration quarterly goals for April - June 2016 | |||
| Resolved | • Rfarrand | T131914 Technical Collaboration participation in Wikimania | |||
| Resolved | • Quiddity | T132624 Pre-Wikimania Hackathon 2016 Content Work | |||
| Resolved | Trizek-WMF | T132468 Translathon for Wikimania 2016 | |||
| Invalid | Qgil | T219 Supporting multiple languages for Trusted User Tool | |||
| Resolved | Nikerabbit | T225 Use translatewiki.net to localize Phabricator | |||
| Resolved | Aklapper | T136071 Get Phabricator i18n ready for translatewiki.net |
I think "unofficially" means that translatewiki would not become the official translation tool for phabricator upstream.
"unofficially" here means that
This makes very little sense; what matters is that Phacility gives Phabricator proper i18n. Actual localizations are the only way to gauge whether i18n is working. Also, the en and qqq locale are tightly coupled with development. But I understand that Phabricator developers have little experience with i18n and may need some time to learn how things work.
If "proper i18n" is equivalent to "i18n ready for translatewiki.net", then this is what this task is about.
@Nemo_bis, your negative opinions about the Phabricator developers are counterproductive at best, and you keep posting them here and there. Please stop. They don't represent the attitude of collaboration Wikimedia wants to keep with the Phabricator project and they don't contribute to anything good. If you want to help resolving Phabricator (Upstream) tasks with the Phabricator project, good. If not, there are many other projects where you can contribute to.
Any chance that the translatewiki import may occur before Wikimania? There will be a translathon during the event, so this would be a good match.
@Psychoslave this is an interesting idea. Just for reference, Wikimania starts on June 22.
Are you referring to T132468: Translathon for Wikimania 2016? We could mark this task as blocking that one, as an aspiration. The Translathon will happen regardless of the status of this task, but we might get some volunteers interested in translating Phabricator strings, indeed.
Yes, that't probably where I heard about it.
Ok for marking this task as a blocking one for T132468, as far as I'm concerned.
Quick summary of upstream activity: In https://secure.phabricator.com/T5267, Nikerabbit and Epriestley have discussed quite some implementation details.
Related patches merged in upstream:
Quoting epriestley in https://secure.phabricator.com/T5267#201637 :
We now export strings into projects/<project>/<group>/en.json, etc. For example, here are strings which appear ONLY in Maniphest:
We now include type information at the top of the human-readable "qqq" string. For example, here is a string with five variables, two of which are plurals:
We now export a frequency.json, with string keys in a list. Since we haven't actually collected frequency data, the order is currently (roughly) random:
Hence I'm closing this task as resolved.
Any potential specific issues coming up in the future should get filed as separate tasks.
Setting up an actual project on translatewiki.net is covered in T225: Use translatewiki.net to localize Phabricator instead.