[Translators-l] new messages for the Content Translation extension

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Le 05/12/2016 à 16:38, Philippe Verdy a écrit :
> In most wikis, verbs used in UI buttons or links are using the 
> infinitive form rather than the imperative.
>
> It is more formal/polite as the imperative sounds like you're giving a 
> strong order, when in fact you're just describing the action that will 
> be done **if** the user follows the link or click the button.
Well, sure, that's what I usually do, and as far as I can remember, 
that's what I learn in human–computer interaction courses. Amusingly, 
Esperanto doesn't have imperative, instead you use volitive 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volitive_modality>.
>
> Notes:
> * Some languages still prefer using the imperative form in a less 
> formal form. Sometimes they also do not hesitate to talk directly to 
> the user, such as German using "Du" rather than the formal "Sie" for 
> translating the English "you". Still, German also has a more "formal" 
> translation using infinitive and "Sie", with a language variant coded 
> as "de-formal".
> * Some other languages prefer the formal form by default, but also 
> have an informal form, such as Dutch, with a language variant coded 
> as "nl-informal".
> * With these variants, users can choose the correct form they prefer 
> and that sound look more correct for them.
How nice, surely I should write a "fr-informal" and "fr-crude" or 
whatever the English grammarians  use as translation of "vulgaire 
<https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Termes_vulgaires_en_fran%C3%A7ais>". 
And hopefully we might even be gratified with non fr-fr proposals! :)

>
>
> 2016-12-05 16:02 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni 
> <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il <mailto:amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>>:
>
>     Hmm, it depends on your language's user interface translation
>     conventions. Both can be OK. The feature in question is already
>     deployed to Wikipedia in all languages, so you can simply try
>     translating an article with an infobox that is available in the
>     Esperanto Wikipedia, and see what works better.
>
>     Hope it helps, and thanks for your translations!
>
>     בתאריך 5 בדצמ׳ 2016 03:57 PM,‏ "mathieu stumpf guntz"
>     <psychoslave at culture-libre.org
>     <mailto:psychoslave at culture-libre.org>> כתב:
>
>         Are this sentences using imperative or infinitive form for the
>         leading verbs? I went with the infinitive form in the
>         Esperanto translation…
>
>
>         Le 25/11/2016 à 15:18, Amir E. Aharoni a écrit :
>>         Hi translators!
>>
>>         A first release of a major new feature of the Content
>>         Translation extension will be deployed to Wikipedia next
>>         week: A template editor.
>>
>>         It will give the article translators much more control over
>>         how the template adaptation works.
>>
>>         There are only a few messages to translate for this. Here's a
>>         direct link for translating it in translatewiki.net
>>         <http://translatewiki.net> :
>>         https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=!translated&action=translate&group=ext-contenttranslation
>>         <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=%21translated&action=translate&group=ext-contenttranslation>
>>
>>         Thank you!
>>
>>         --
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