Hello! I would like to propose creating a MediaWiki:Automaticrefresh message which would contain "Automatic refresh" message. I already have it translated into hundreds of various languages. The message is the most common text in AjaxRC script, a popular script for refreshing pages. I want to share them and I was told writing about it here is the best idea.
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The page containing script is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kangaroopower/AjaxRC.js
Also giving a link to list of translations: http://pl.quentum.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Refresh.js
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I got here through https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:Multichill#New_MediaWiki . You could turn this into a small extension and the i18n would be part of that extension?
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Adding a new extension for that single message would definitely be too much of an work, as extensions need their own repository set up in gerrit, mirrored to phab & github, linked with translatewiki, need to have a page on mediawiki.org created and the extension code reviewed and deployed to production - that's hours of work and just overkill. Also we won't want to collect a ton of extensions that just hold a single message.
As this is a gadget on wikimedia sites, we maybe could just use rEWME extension-WikimediaMessages for this. That'd need someone to add the message in the en.json and qqq.json file there. I'm not really sure if this is the way how we actually deal with gadgets, user scripts etc, i.e. if that is the right place to put that message. If it is, this task is definitely good first task .
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If possible, I would like to strore translations on TranslateWiki.net, as there they can be expanded and improved. I can upload them there myself. But the other things you said, I just don't get, because I'm not familiar with advanced things like this...