Extend page translation syntax by adding instruction to disable wrapping
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	Nikerabbit
	Jun 29 2020, 10:59 AM

Description

Per the parent task, we need a syntax like <translate nowrap>...</translate> to prevent wrapping in places where it would break things.

Affected documentation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration

QA plan

Affected projects: All Wikimedia projects using Translate
Pre (or post)-deployment testing: Try marking translatable pages with regular and new nowrap sections. Translate them, update source to make them fuzzy. Check translation pages that nowrap sections are not marked as outdated, but regular sections are. This will be easier to test when other tasks of the parent tasks are resolved, because then untranslated sections are wrapped too.

Outcome

New syntax <translate nowrap>...</translate> can be used on translatable pages to prevent wrapping of section text inside html tags. Currently this only affects marking of outdated sections, but in future it will also affect any other kind of wrapping.

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Implement <translate nowrap>	mediawiki/extensions/Translate	master	+271 -60

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Goal	Nikerabbit	T254481 Support sending TechNews using Special:MassMessage
Resolved		Nikerabbit	T254484 Tag untranslated translations units with lang and dir attributes
Resolved		Nikerabbit	T256625 Extend page translation syntax by adding instruction to disable wrapping

Event Timeline

Nikerabbit created this task.Jun 29 2020, 10:59 AM

Nikerabbit moved this task from Priority Backlog to In Review on the Language-Team (Language-2020-Focus-Sprint) board.Jun 29 2020, 1:58 PM

Change 608324 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nikerabbit; owner: Nikerabbit):
[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Implement <translate nowrap>

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/ /608324

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 29 2020, 1:59 PM

Nikerabbit triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 1 2020, 12:37 PM

Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to page translation on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board.

Nikerabbit mentioned this in T254484: Tag untranslated translations units with lang and dir attributes.Jul 1 2020, 12:41 PM

Nikerabbit added a project: User-notice.Jul 7 2020, 10:22 AM

Nikerabbit updated the task description. (Show Details)

matej_suchanek awarded a token.Jul 7 2020, 4:19 PM

Change 608324 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Translate@master] Implement <translate nowrap>

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/608324

ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.41; 2020-07-14); removed MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.38; 2020-06-23).Jul 8 2020, 9:00 AM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 8 2020, 9:11 AM

Nikerabbit updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 8 2020, 12:58 PM

Nikerabbit moved this task from In Review to Needs QA on the Language-Team (Language-2020-Focus-Sprint) board.

Nikerabbit updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 8 2020, 1:07 PM

I think it should be stressed in the documentation that this boolean parameter is different from other boolean parameters in wiki code—HTML5 allows a boolean parameter named nowrap specified as either <translate nowrap> or <translate nowrap="nowrap">, while in the MediaWiki world generally any other value like <translate nowrap="1"> or <translate nowrap="lorem ipsum"> is accepted. (I’m not asking to change the current situation; it’s not that surprising since everything is a bit different in Translate, like !!FUZZY!! interpreted non-literally, <tvar|1> having a quite strange format etc. But people should be aware of this difference.)

Added to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/29 – if anyone's got a better idea for how to explain wrapping in a short and simple way, please edit.

Johan moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Jul 9 2020, 1:32 PM