Dagbani Wikimedians & Sister Communities TranslateWiki Project

Background

As part of our ongoing commitment to making Wikimedia projects accessible and user-friendly for a global audience and the indigenous languages for the Mabia languages, we are launching a comprehensive translation initiative using the TranslateWiki project. This initiative aims to translate all MediaWiki statements for every Wikimedia skin across various projects, ensuring that the user interface is available in multiple languages (Dagbani, Gurene, Moore, Dagaare and Kusaal). TranslateWiki, a leading platform for collaborative translation, provides a structured and efficient way to manage the translation process.

Participating Communities

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Why Translation is Crucial

1. Global Accessibility: Wikimedia projects are utilized by a diverse and international user base. By translating MediaWiki statements, we aim to break down language barriers and provide a more inclusive experience for users from different linguistic backgrounds.

2. User Empowerment: Translating key interface elements empowers users to navigate and engage with Wikimedia projects more effectively. A user-friendly interface, available in multiple languages, enhances the overall user experience and encourages participation from a broader audience.

3. Community Collaboration: Wikimedia projects thrive on the collaboration of a global community. By facilitating translations, we hope to strengthen the bonds within the community and encourage individuals from diverse linguistic backgrounds to contribute to the growth and development of Wikimedia projects.

Pages to Translate

This template adds a list of links to the important translatewiki projects that need to be translated in order to have an experience in the native language on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects that will cover the needs most readers and editors: core MediaWiki software, the multilingual main page portal (wikipedia.org), several important extensions, and the mobile apps. This especially takes into account the needs of wikis in new and developing languages.

This template can be used on user pages, and anywhere that you find comfortable.

There is one required parameter: language_code. For example, if you are translating into Dagbani, use the template like this: {{User:Amire80/MW high prio links|language_code=dag}}.

• Most used / Most important
• Messages that need updating or fixing: please check every message and make necessary fixes before confirming it!
• Vector - the default desktop skin
• Portals - wikipedia.org home page
• Universal Language Selector - component
• Universal Language Selector - extension
• Discussion Tools
• Babel
• Mobile website:
  • Page Content Service - strings for all mobile interfaces
  • MinervaNeue - the mobile web skin
  • MobileFrontend - the mobile web interface
• Visual Editor (the titles don't matter; all these parts must be translated for the complete Wikipedia Visual editor experience):
  • VisualEditor - OOJS
  • VisualEditor - WMF
  • VisualEditor - core
  • VisualEditor - MediaWiki
  • VisualEditor - Citoid
  • VisualEditor - Cite
• WikiEditor
• Wikibase client - integration of Wikipedia and Wikidata
• Incubator (this is not a high priority if the wiki in your language has already graduated from the Incubator)
• Wikibase Lexeme - dictionary information in Wikidata
• ContentTranslation
• UploadWizard
• Wikipedia Android app
• Wikipedia iOS app (You can skip this if iPhone is not common among the speakers of your language)
• Commons Android App
• Wikibase repo - Wikidata.org website
• Echo - also known as "Notifications"
• ProofreadPage - Wikisource (You can skip it if you don't need Wikisource)
• Extensions used by Wikimedia - main
• Core MediaWiki
• Extensions used by Wikimedia - Advanced
• Extensions used by Wikimedia - Media

Guides and tools

• Basic MediaWiki glossary | Translate the glossary
• System message documentation
• General localization guidelines
• General guidelines for translating MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia
• Amir Aharoni's tips for translation
• Use language for user interface
• Tool to track the localization
• Translation statistics