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Request for Making a Translation-related Configuration Change
Hello, as a Meta Translation Administrator, I would like  (can be found in the Localisation section) to be checked in ManageWiki. It will help translators by showing machine translation suggestions. Thank you. 16:08, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

✅. Dmehus (talk) 21:42, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * R4356th I personally would have no objections to this. I'm going to ping Reception123 to this thread to say whether he feels this needs a full Administrators' noticeboard discussion. I personally don't feel it does, as we have no policy on translations. We primarily rely on users' common sense that only those users who know a language should be doing translations in said language. This is a tool that would help users who know a language, but may not be native speakers of said language. Dmehus (talk) 18:12, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Since it doesn't ultimately change the workflow of this wiki and just provides a translation aid I would personally think it's fine to proceed without a formal discussion, especially since I can't really see a reason to oppose this. I don't think it would encourage users doing machine translations, but if that happens they can be told accordingly. Reception123 (talk) ( C ) 20:01, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's a good way of looking at it, I think. Additionally, if the extension proposed to add any new local Meta user groups, or alter existing Meta user groups in a significant way, I would also think we'd want to have a local community discussion on Meta Wiki. As you and R4356th have articulated, this is just adding an additional tool to existing translators' and translation administrators' toolkits to ease their translation work. If it becomes an issue, then we may need to have a larger community discussion towards adopting as translation policy or guidelines for translators to adhere to, but we can have that policy discussion at a later time when it's required. Accordingly, this requested settings change is now
 * Thank you very much. 21:55, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Um... I do not see any change? 22:00, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hrm, are you still seeing no change? Is there any other setting change needed? Dmehus (talk) 22:27, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I still do not see any change. I will take a look at the Translate extension's documentation and Miraheze's mw-config repositroy. 12:49, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I took a quick look at Yandex's translation service and looks like the languages I have tested with are supported. I will further look into this. 14:16, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * On second thoughts, a really simple answer could be that we are not paying Yandex. 14:18, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I think I found the problem. I will make a pull request. 14:24, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * CSP seems to be causing this. Universal Omega has made a pull request to add Yandex to the CSP whitelist. 15:49, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Per finding on Discord or IRC, this has likely been caused by Miraheze's API key becoming invalid. 16:01, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * R4356th Ah, that makes the most sense actually because I was sure I'd used the Yandex translation hints on TestWiki in the past year. Nevertheless, if you can advise when this has been corrected, that'd be awesome. Thanks Dmehus (talk) 23:27, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Miraheze was using a free API key given by a user (they cannot remember where they got it) which got expired in August of 2020. So I am not sure whether it is coming back. 13:33, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

R4356th Ah, okay, thanks for the update. Yeah, we likely don't have the budget to pay for a premium API key. I thought I saw that the Translate extension has configuration variables that can work with either of Google Translate, Yandex Translate, Bing Translate, and possibly even Naver Translate? I wonder if either of those has a free plan, without usage limitations, that we could try. Dmehus (talk) 17:27, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

meatball
Ho ho ho,

links to, but it is 301'ing to. One less 301s are always better, so can we modify this?

Thanks. &mdash; revi  14:30, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅,--MrJaroslavik (talk) 14:35, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Translation administrator
I know I don't have many edits yet, but yes, the number of edits would increase if I had translation administrator rights: I could use them to translate pages and also mark them for translation. On my chat page, I was talking to a Miraheze user when I asked how I could help Miraheze and collaborate with others so if I understood correctly, translation was taken up. Therefore, I would like the rights of a translation administrator. Anton (talk) 20:20, 28 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Anton I'm not opposed to this, but which language(s) do you speak fluently or fairly fluently, and on which wiki(s) have you used the Translate extension? Thanks. Dmehus (talk) 20:23, 28 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I speak Swedish, Spanish and French, moderately English and Finnish well. I have learned Russian, but I do not know about than a couple of sentences.  Yes, and I would use that Translate tool.  In addition to this, I would mark the pages for translation - and I would translate them as well. --Anton (talk) 20:34, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Anton I'm going to put this on hold for a week or two, at minimum, as I would like to see you doing some translations first in languages in which you're most fluent, doing translation reviews of existing translations, and experimenting with the translation administration tools on one of your wikis. How's that? Dmehus (talk) 20:39, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * While I am not an administrator, I would suggest you to become an active translator first. 20:39, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's what I was suggesting as well. Basically, you don't need translation administrator tools to translate. If you're active translating, you'll usually be invited to participate in fairly short order. Dmehus (talk) 20:43, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, you can grant me translator rights and later even a translation administrator :) it's good to go to traffic.  I am now really going to participate in Miraheze. Anton (talk) 20:47, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You do not need the Translator rights to translate anything here! You can just visit Special:Translate or click the "Translate" button on any translatable page. I hope this helps. :) 20:50, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you!  This helped.  I got started! Anton (talk) 21:08, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Anton ✅! I'll follow up with you in a couple weeks on your user talk page. Dmehus (talk) 01:23, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

FuzzyBot breaks bulleted lists
FuzzyBot breaks bulleted lists, see Special:Diff/159755 and Miraheze/eo for example. Why does this keep happening and what can we do about it? --Sabelöga (talk) 12:54, 30 January 2021 (UTC)


 * I am to blame for this, apparently. I updated the translation syntax which seems to have caused this. Having said that, we should always keep the syntax up to date from time to time. I will look into switching back to the previous one in a few hours. We should consider making an upstream task on Wikimedia Phabricator regarding this as well. Also a note for Interface Admins: it may be possible to fix the issue with CSS. 13:46, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you have a list of broken pages? 16:05, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, I don't think R4356th's translation edits or administration is to blame for this. If I'm understanding correctly, this occurs when a translated source page is marked for translation. The Translate extension, via FuzzyBot, adds  with a Translate extension-specific CSS class that breaks bulleted lists. It's an upstream bug almost certainly, but usually what translators do is they just remove this special div the next time they go to update the translation subpage. Dmehus (talk) 16:18, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * What Dmehus said above seems right. Updating the syntax should had used another HTML element. 17:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, so how does one manually update the translation syntax?
 * Also, I do think there is a fix to this as it doesn't seem to happen on MediaWiki.org where the syntax keeps the text on the same line which doesn't split the bullet from the text and prevents this from happening in the first place. --Sabelöga (talk) 07:28, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Never mind the above: the text was aligned that way on the source page which caused the translation to get mangled when FuzzyBot added that syntax. This has been fixed on the discussed page. Oh, and can you do the same on the Main Page? --Sabelöga (talk) 07:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Request for Revoking the User Group from Incnis Mrsi
They have recently made some edits here which actions arguably constitute attacking other users which is obviously not acceptable. Even though their actions cannot be called vandalism, I (as a Meta patroller) think we should patrol their edits till we decide we are fine with them. Thank you. 13:08, 7 February 2021 (UTC)


 * ❌. This could've been considered, perhaps, but given that the user seems to have dropped the stick, I don't feel this is necessary at this time. We'll monitor the situation and take action accordingly. Dmehus (talk) 13:23, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright. Thank you for looking into this anyway. :) 13:30, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

How to add bureaucrat?
Hello, can you please explain me how can I add bureaucrats to my wiki? ItsKandar (talk) 15:11, 14 February 2021 (UTC)