MediaWiki:Gadget-TranslationAdder.js/help

Usage

General

After you have made an edit with one of the installed tools (instructions for which are listed below) a blue box appears in the top left corner containing:

• Save page
• Undo
• Redo

No changes made to the page are recorded until you press Save.

Editing translations

You should see a line at the end of the table something like

• Help         :                       Preview translation More
  ◻ masc. ◻ fem. ◻ neuter ◻ common gender ◻ plural

• The first box is the ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-3 language code (for common languages you can put in the language name, and it will give you the code).
• The second box is the translation to add. This should normally be one word, if you attempt to add many separated by commas you will get a warning. If you want to request a translation set the word to {{trreq}}.
• The gender tick-boxes are normally only needed for nouns, "common gender" tends to be used for languages in which masculine and feminine have combined into one class, whereas "neuter" is a separate gender that is neither masculine nor feminine.
• Clicking Preview will try to make the edit, and display the Save page button in the top left.
• Clicking more opens the extra options (really intended only for advanced users)
• The second line contains gender check boxes, normally only one should be ticked. Though occasionally more are needed.
  • Transliteration: (tr=) The word as it might be transliterated into the Latin alphabet.
  • Qualifier: This is used if the translation only applies in a certain specific context, or under specific conditions. For example: (informally) and (literally).
  • Page name: (alt=) the name of the page when the word includes diacritics that are only normally found in a dictionary. This box may be automatically filled in for some languages (even when it is hidden).
  • Script template: (sc=) this only needs to be specified if you want something different from what it suggests.
  • Nesting: For languages that aren't already present in the translation table, the new language line may be nested under a language family heading. Or you may add translations with orthographic nesting. The syntax for this box is either: "Family Heading", "Family Heading/Language name" or "/Alphabet name".

Balancing translations

After adding a translation, two buttons will appear in the middle of the table:

• Clicking "←" moves the first translation on the right to the end of the left list.
• Clicking "→" moves the last translation on the left to the start of the right list.

Table Labelling

If you enable this feature, each translation table has a ± in the corner.

• Clicking on this brings up an edit box for the table's header.
• Type what you want in, normally the first few words in the definition (without linking or formatting)
• Click "Preview" - if you are not happy with the result, click ± again - otherwise click "Save" in the top corner

WARNING: This feature has not been well tested in all browsers yet. Please notify me on this talk page if you have any problems.

You don't have the current version of the translation table gloss editor.

Disabling

Logged in users

Go to Special:Preferences and the Gadgets tab, then check "Disable translation table editor buttons"

Logged out users

You don't have the current version of the editor.

NB. Logged in users can disable it here temporarily, using the first method is recommended.

Adding definitions

The "Toolbox" section of the sidebar on the left includes a button labelled "Add definition". Clicking this will cause a "Definition" box to follow the mouse. Type in a definition and click on an area of a definition list to add the new definition to that list. Clicking anywhere outside of a definition list while the "Definition" box is following the mouse will cause the box to disappear.

Adding rhymes

You should see a line at the bottom of each "syllables" section of each rhymes page that looks something like this:

Add new rhyme:                   Add

Typing in a rhyme and clicking "Add" will preview the addition of the new rhyme to the rhymes page. Clicking the "Save page" button in the blue box that appears in the top left corner will then save the change to the rhymes page, and update the entry of the newly added rhyme(s) to link back to the rhymes list in their pronunciation section(s). The rhymes adder can be disabled by going to the "Gadgets" tab of Special:Preferences and selecting "Disable the rhymes editor".