Yet another paper on the topic (§3.2.1) reminded me that we could assess the usefulness of "in-place translation" for MediaWiki system messages, to recruit more translators.
In our case it would only need to be a link to a https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:SearchTranslations query; questions would be how prominently to display the button/link, for each message or only once for all messages in the page, to whom (probably registered users), in what languages (like, only below 70 % translation).