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The current practice for translating categories is

• All categories can (should?) be translated.
  • The translated category name must end with /lg, where lg is the usual language code (to avoid accidental clashes with other languages)
  • To ensure, that we translate categories consistently, all the categories we use are listed in a subpage of Translation_Help_Needed

• There is a category page for all categories in a given language: "Pages in language/lg", where "Pages in language" can (should?) be translated - so fx instead of "Pages in Danish/da" I use "Sider på dansk/da".
  • A category statement with this text should be placed on every translated category page
  • This aggregated category page itself should have the category "Pages" (not translated)

The disadvantage of this scheme is, that pages will not show up in the translated category pages until they have been placed there by a translator. It seems like a good idea, that all pages - translated or not - should show up there, but we haven't found a method to do so.

One solution would be for translators to simply translate the category statement on each page - allways the last translation unit. Not an elegant solution, but perhaps workable? Are there any downsides to that?

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Claus chr‎21:00, 8 July 2011

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Last edit: 16:47, 9 July 2011

Just translate the section of the category would create a page/ca untranslated. I think the "solution" report a bug (wishlist) over mediawiki software.

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Abella‎21:16, 8 July 2011

You are right, off course, but it doesn't seem to be very much different from the situation when the translated page doesn't exist at all: In both cases the user will see the original English text. The only difference is that your language will appear in the language selection bar and that the page contains a translated category. How big a difference will this be to ordinary users?

(I am not exactly pleased with this proposal myself - it isn't really a tidy solution, but would anyone notice the difference?)

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Claus chr‎21:56, 8 July 2011