Improve qqq for i18n message at Special:Userrights

Remove vagueness by adding documentation for this, as translators had
problems with the terms "put back" and "bring forward". Also fix minor
lack of precision in those messages.

Bug: T157587
Change-Id: Idef412556ce54820eb65cce0b53dec09f5d95f9e

diff --git a/languages/i18n/en.json b/languages/i18n/en.json
index e87b6fb..abe7998 100644 (file)
--- a/languages/i18n/en.json
+++ b/languages/i18n/en.json
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@
        "userrights-groupsmember": "Member of:",
        "userrights-groupsmember-auto": "Implicit member of:",
        "userrights-groupsmember-type": "$1",
-       "userrights-groups-help": "You may alter the groups this user is in:\n* A checked box means the user is in that group.\n* An unchecked box means the user is not in that group.\n* A * indicates that you cannot remove the group once you have added it, or vice versa.\n* A # indicates that you can only put back the expiration time of this group; you cannot bring it forward.",
+       "userrights-groups-help": "You may alter the groups this user is in:\n* A checked box means the user is in that group.\n* An unchecked box means the user is not in that group.\n* A * indicates that you cannot remove the group once you have added it, or vice versa.\n* A # indicates that you can only put back the expiration time of this group membership; you cannot bring it forward.",
        "userrights-reason": "Reason:",
        "userrights-no-interwiki": "You do not have permission to edit user rights on other wikis.",
        "userrights-nodatabase": "Database $1 does not exist or is not local.",
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@
        "userrights-expiry-options": "1 day:1 day,1 week:1 week,1 month:1 month,3 months:3 months,6 months:6 months,1 year:1 year",
        "userrights-invalid-expiry": "The expiry time for group \"$1\" is invalid.",
        "userrights-expiry-in-past": "The expiry time for group \"$1\" is in the past.",
-       "userrights-cannot-shorten-expiry": "You cannot bring forward the expiry of group \"$1\". Only users with permission to add and remove this group can bring forward expiry times.",
+       "userrights-cannot-shorten-expiry": "You cannot bring forward the expiry of membership in group \"$1\". Only users with permission to add and remove this group can bring forward expiry times.",
        "userrights-conflict": "Conflict of user rights changes! Please review and confirm your changes.",
        "group": "Group:",
        "group-user": "Users",

diff --git a/languages/i18n/qqq.json b/languages/i18n/qqq.json
index 444d168..b16c01b 100644 (file)
--- a/languages/i18n/qqq.json
+++ b/languages/i18n/qqq.json
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@
        "userrights-groupsmember": "Used when editing user groups in [[Special:Userrights]].\n\nThe message is followed by a list of group names.\n\nParameters:\n* $1 - (Optional) the number of items in the list following the message, for PLURAL\n* $2 - (Optional) the user name, for GENDER",
        "userrights-groupsmember-auto": "Used when editing user groups in [[Special:Userrights]]. The message is followed by a list of group names.\n\n\"Implicit\" is for groups that the user was automatically added to (such as \"autoconfirmed\"); cf. {{msg-mw|userrights-groupsmember}}\n\nParameters:\n* $1 - (Optional) the number of items in the list following the message, for PLURAL\n* $2 - (Optional) the user name, for GENDER",
        "userrights-groupsmember-type": "{{optional}}\nParameters:\n* $1 - list of group names\n* $2 - list of group member names. Used with labels {{msg-mw|Userrights-groupsmember}} and {{msg-mw|Userrights-groupsmember-auto}}",
-       "userrights-groups-help": "Instructions displayed on [[Special:UserRights]]. Parameters:\n* $1 - (Optional) a username, can be used for GENDER",
+       "userrights-groups-help": "Instructions displayed on [[Special:UserRights]].  \"Bring forward\" is a phrasal verb meaning \"move to an earlier time\". \"Put back\" means the opposite. Parameters:\n* $1 - (Optional) a username, can be used for GENDER",
        "userrights-reason": "Text beside log field when editing user groups\n\n{{Identical|Reason}}",
        "userrights-no-interwiki": "Error message when editing user groups",
        "userrights-nodatabase": "Error message when editing user groups.\n\n\"Local\" means databases/wikis of the same farm/cluster; that is, meta, enwiki, dewiki, commons, etc are all local databases of the Wikimedia Foundation.\n\nSee [{{canonicalurl:meta:Special:Log|type=rights}} meta:Special:Log?type=rights] for a usage of local databases: username@barwiki\n\nParameters:\n* $1 - database name",