Hi @Aklapper, thanks for the quick reply. I was unaware that I'm allowed to alter the translations. I'll head over to translatewiki to see what I can do. Feel free to mark this issue as resolved or closed. Have a great day.

Hi again, @Aklapper. I hope it's not too late to provide the strings. I don't mind if the "Jumiekan" translations are displayed alongside the Patwa sentences. But I really would like to see something that actual Jamaican people can relate to.

I'm not saying these strings are perfect but I believe this is how an average Creole speaker might express these ideas informally (when they're not speaking standard English):

"babel": "Babel user information",
"babel-desc": "Add on di <code>#babel</code> parser function weh put een a babel userbox column fi yuh. Any custom template weh yuh have can use wid it.",
"babel-url": "Project:Babel",
"babel-footer-url": ":Category:Babel - People sort by language weh dem talk",
"babel-autocreate-reason": "Category page fi [[$1|Babel]] a generate.",
"babel-autocreate-text-levels": "People dem inna dis category seh dem $2 $1.",
"babel-autocreate-text-main": "People dem inna dis category can chat $1.",
"babel-autocreate-user": "Babel AutoCreate",
"babel-0": "Dis ya (oo)man [[$2|$3]] [[$1|soft]]",
"babel-1": "Dis ya (oo)man know [[$1|likkle]] [[$2|$3]].",
"babel-2": "Dis ya (oo)man [[$2|$3]] [[$1|can gwaan]].",
"babel-3": "Dis ya (oo)man [[$2|$3]] [[$1|good fi true]].",
"babel-4": "Dis ya (oo)man chat [[$2|$3]] [[$1|good good]].",
"babel-5": "Dis ya (oo)man chat [[$2|$3]] [[$1|like smaddy weh bawn wid it]].",
"babel-N": "Dis ya (oo)man a chat [[$2|$3]] [[$1|from 'im bawn]].",
"babel-0-n": "Dis ya (oo)man [[$2|English]] [[$1|soft]].",
"babel-1-n": "Dis ya (oo)man know [[$1|likkle]] [[$2|English]].",
"babel-2-n": "Dis ya (oo)man [[$2|English]] [[$1|can gwaan]].",
"babel-3-n": "Dis ya (oo)man [[$2|English]] [[$1|good fi true]].",
"babel-4-n": "Dis ya (oo)man chat [[$2|English]] [[$1|good good]].",
"babel-5-n": "Dis ya (oo)man chat [[$2|English]] [[$1|like smaddy weh bawn wid it]].",
"babel-N-n": "Dis ya (oo)man a chat [[$2|English]] [[$1|from 'im bawn]]"
"babel-portal": "",
"babel-template": "Template:User $1",
"babel-footer": "People sort by language weh dem talk"

Would I still have to use translatewiki to see something similar in the Babel extension? Or can this be done by other means?

Looking forward to your response.

• Denton

If these strings are available for editing in translatewiki.net then they should be translated in translatewiki.net :)

Okay. Thanks again ;-)

Hi @Amire80,

Thank you very much. I appreciate your help. I am a little concerned that the translators there might have issues with my translations since for the most part they're going to look very similar to English. In Jamaica, we write our dialect using an English-like style. We, after all, speak an English-based creole language. The people who have been contributing thus far use a recently developed artificial orthography which is only used by a minority in academia who have their own agenda. Anyhow, I'll try at some point in the future. Let's see what happens.

By the way, the truth is that every literate Jamaican can read English just fine. So what we're really talking about is a localisaton effort for Jamaicans to make the interface feel more "Jamaicany". Thanks again, all :-)