Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Translation/Improve translation tool: Fixed (editable) per language mapping of section titles/Proposal

  • Problem: When tranlating from one language to another, the section titles often either get translated, or they remain untranslated. Many Wikis have style guides what an article sholud look like, including specific section titles. In Simple English, we expect that the 'External Links' be called 'Other websites', or that 'Related pages' be called 'See also'. Similar requirements exist in other languages.
  • Proposed solution: Add a 'dictionary'/'mapping' containing these sections, when translating from one language to another. So, when translating, the tool automatically proposed 'Other Websites' instead of 'External links'. The question remains if there's one 'dictionary', and at the first translation the translator gets a copy he/she can adapt, or have one dictionary per language pair that specific users (based on a privilege) can edit.
  • Who would benefit: Translators
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wo1wdedl1tn9thki
  • Proposer: Eptalon (talk) 21:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]