Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-4142476-20160514181902/@comment-24473195-20160523121350

This is interesting. Have you guys looked into asking wikia to evaluate and review the Extension:ContentTranslation for wikia use? It has a lot of benefits including machine translation and several other features. The only problem is that it is not compatible with the current Mediawiki version on wikia, which would require some effort to backport.

I suppose if 300 members email wikia to request this they may actually take it seriously. Alternatively a blog on c may help push this idea.

Anyway, the problem with script messages in dev.wikia is that most of them are intertwinned with the actual code, making it considerably hard for regular users to translate or even request translations. This is primarily caused by the fact that we don't really have any guidelines for localization here, and everyone just does their thing.

One simple idea would be rewriting at least the top 10 scripts here to store the localization separately from the code, e.g.:


 * AjaxRC

**MediaWiki:AjaxRC/code.js


 * MediaWiki:AjaxRC/i18n.json

Another idea would be to just store it as plain text (i18n) instead of  i18n.json. As long as no such guidelines exist here, scripts will always have random (and sometimes incorrect) translations. In some cases "translators" will actually break scripts will attempting to add their new versions.