README

The Translate extension makes MediaWiki a powerful tool to translate every
kind of text. It's used especially to translate software user interfaces and
to manage multilingual wikis in a sensible way.
 
## Copying
See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl2.html>
 
## Installation
For a very very quick start add the following to LocalSettings.php:
 
```php
wfLoadExtension( 'Translate' );
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate-messagereview'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['pagetranslation'] = true;
```
 
More documentation is at
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Installation>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Configuration>
 
## Contributing
To translate this extension go to https://translatewiki.net and sign up.
 
To contribute features, fixes and code maintenance, please see
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Code_of_Conduct>
* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Getting_started_with_development>
 
There is also a dedicated Translate and translatewiki.net development
environment, see
* <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/translatewiki/+/refs/heads/master/puppet/README>
 
Known bugs and feature requests are collected and reported at
* <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-extensions-translate/>
 
You can chat with the developers at #wikimedia-language on Libera Chat IRC.