The change is unfortunately disruptive for the languages that had
the
most complete translations (sorry, Japanese team!). There is no
point
in using the migration tool, because the translations have been
broken
into smaller units. Please pick the earlier version from the
version
history and copy translated content from it.
To make things a bit less painful, I will add some often-repeated
translations (yes/no/supported/not supported) for es, fr, ja, ko,
ru,
sl, tr, zh-tw and zh-hans. I would already have done it, but our
server infrastructure is experiencing problems that prevent
working on
the wiki. So please let me do these first.
As a positive thing, the translations are now in smaller units,
so
there will be less annoying wiki markup for the translators to
see
while they work. I scripted the addition of <translate> elements
to
table cells and manually did the rest. I did not aim for a 100%
perfectionist approach, because it would have been too much work.
And now, to my horror, I realise that the yes/no/partial templates
had
been used incorrectly in the page. I should have fixed the use of
the
templates before marking the page for translation. Unfortunately,
I
will be unable to do this before Monday next week. I hope it is
not an
inconvenience, but please refrain from touching the translations
until
I fix things.
I will have to
1. enable translations for the templates themselves
2. translate their texts to the languages I mentioned in the
previous
email
3. make it so the template instances in the table cells are always
of
the format {{yes}}, so all additional text is always outside the
instance
4. refer to the templates using the form {{yes{{#translation:}}}},
so
the desired translation will be picked from the template
translation
All right, I managed to sneak in several hours of work during the
weekend after all. Thanks to Adolfo, who intervened at a time the
behaviour of MediaWiki had me completely confused regarding the
translation of templates.
So now the templates
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Template:Yes
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Template:No
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Template:Partial
have translations in es, fr, ja, ko, ru, sl, tr, zh-tw and zh-hans
(and
some extra ones thanks to Adolfo). I am not 100% sure about Partial
in
zh-tw and zh-hans, so do correct me if I messed it up.
The cache for the translated Feature comparison pages has been
busted by
translating the Introduction heading. You can now proceed with
translating the page.
Even more work was put into excluding unnecessary strings from the
translations. Hopefully everything is fine.
Ilmari