Last modified: 2013-06-08 19:14:55 UTC
The qqq documentation for messages 'pagetriage-del-tags-dba3-label' and 'pagetriage-del-tags-dba3-desc' is useful only to a small number of people in the English Wikipedia. "db-a3" is a term used only in the English Wikipedia and only by very experienced patrollers. It cannot be expected that translators to other languages will understand it.
Good point. Could we update the qqq documentation to include the relevant tag descriptions from the 'Add tags' tool? These should be easier to understand and translate than the raw template code.
First of all, the term "tags" should also be avoided, because it is also a part of the English Wikipedia jargon. It's better to say something like "maintenance templates" or "warning templates". This issue deserves its own bug, actually. The best and simplest thing is to write what actually happens: Where does this message appear, what will happens if the user will press the associated button, etc.
Actually, this is not an i18n issue, but a design issue. Tags and tag grouping should have been implemented as being configurable in the MediaWiki: namespace, and not in default extension messages. This would have prevented the whole list of en.wp templates to be translated into other languages, and would have made the extension more flexible. If now one more tag is added or changed, a developer is needed to change the extension code, instead of a sysop changing one or two pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
(In reply to comment #3) > Actually, this is not an i18n issue, but a design issue. > > Tags and tag grouping should have been implemented as being configurable in the > MediaWiki: namespace, and not in default extension messages. This would have > prevented the whole list of en.wp templates to be translated into other > languages, and would have made the extension more flexible. > > If now one more tag is added or changed, a developer is needed to change the > extension code, instead of a sysop changing one or two pages in the MediaWiki > namespace. I don't think there is a design issue here. The tags configuration can be re-defined in MediaWiki:PageTriageExternalTagsOptions.js, which will overwrite whatever the default defined insidethe extension. That means we can have a sysop add tags and remove tags from a MediaWiki namespace page.
We should probably just mark these messages as optional to translate. On other wikis, the en.wiki default will be overridden by MediaWiki:PageTriageExternalTagsOptions.js as mentioned by Benny.
