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--- mantisbt:translationshowto [2022/05/28 09:18] – [Translations] commit frequency from TWN dregad
+++ mantisbt:translationshowto [2026/02/07 12:32] (current) – [Validating translations] updated for new test_langs.php functionality dregad
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   * register a user at [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:UserLogin?type=signup|translatewiki.net]]
-  * create a user page at http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:YourUserName with a little information about yourself ([[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Horus|example]]).
+  * create a user page at https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:YourUserName with a little information about yourself ([[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/User:Horus|example]]).
-  * set your user language in your [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Preferences|preferences]] while logged in
+  * set your user language in your [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Preferences|preferences]] while logged in
-  * [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Translator|request translator access]]. This will take a few hours to be processed by a site administrator. Make certain you have created a user page.
+  * [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Translator|request translator access]]. This will take a few hours to be processed by a site administrator. Make certain you have created a user page.
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 After you have been granted translator rights, you can translate MantisBT Core and the bundled Plugins at the following URLs:
-  * [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-core|MantisBT core]]
+  * [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-core|MantisBT core]]
-  * [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-plugin-mantiscoreformatting|MantisBT Formatting plugin]]
+  * [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-plugin-mantiscoreformatting|MantisBT Formatting plugin]]
-  * [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-plugin-mantisgraph|MantisBT Graphs plugin]]
+  * [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-plugin-mantisgraph|MantisBT Graphs plugin]]
-  * [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-plugin-xmlimportexport|MantisBT XML Import/Export plugin]]
+  * [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/out-mantis-plugin-xmlimportexport|MantisBT XML Import/Export plugin]]
-The translatewiki.net staff will add your work to the MantisBT source code periodically (changes are committed on a bi-weekly basis, Mondays and Thursdays), so the only thing you need to do is translate! Some localisation statistics can be found on the [[http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:MantisBT|MantisBT translatewiki project page]].
+The translatewiki.net staff will add your work to the MantisBT source code periodically (changes are committed on a bi-weekly basis, Mondays and Thursdays), so the only thing you need to do is translate! Some localisation statistics can be found on the [[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:MantisBT|MantisBT translatewiki project page]].
 The same process is valid not only for updating translations for existing languages, but also if you wish to translate a new language.
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 ===== Validating translations =====
-Run http://localhost/mantisbt/admin/test_langs.php to make sure that the new file doesn't introduce syntax errors.
+Run http://localhost/mantisbt/admin/test_langs.php to verify that the localized language files do not introduce errors and check for inconsistencies with the English reference language strings.
-Note: as the translation files are generated by TranslateWiki, this should not be necessary and is only kept here for historical purposes.
+The script will detect problem such as invalid language file names, missing strings, syntax errors, incorrect or inconsistent placeholders, etc.
-This script is nevertheless useful for validating 3rd-party plugins' language files.
+It is also useful for validating 3rd-party plugins' language files that are not managed by translatewiki.net.