FAQs
Appearance
Backend links
- Tooltip Glossary
- Changing "Privacy policy" link in footer to "Notice and take down policy"
- Changing "Disclaimer":
- MediaWiki:Footer-tagline
- MediaWiki:Test-desc
- MediaWiki:Test-page
- Special:ManageNamespaces
- Special:SpecialPages
- Special:Statistics (Shows site statistics)
- MediaWiki:Common.css (CSS placed here will be applied to all skins)
- Special:Export
- Special:Import
- MediaWiki:Mainpage
- MediaWiki:Sidebar
- Special:ReplaceText
- w/mw-config/index.php
- Special:PopularPages (HitCounters)
- Category:Pages with broken file links
- michaelbeijer.co.uk Sitemap: https://beijerterm.com/sitemap.xml
- Sentences
- Mediawiki:Vector.css
- MediaWiki:Vector-opt-out (to remove "Switch to old look" text from sidebar)
- file:///C:/Downloaded%20Web%20Sites/michaelbeijer.co.uk/index.htm


This page is a collection of solutions to problems I encountered in my work as a translator. I’m offering them here in the hope they may save someone a bit of time the next time they try to solve a similar problem.
FAQs
Minor & Major annoyances on Windows
Backup
CAT tool terminology tips
Data cleaning
File conversions and prepping
Hardware
- Windows Precision Touchpads (aka Why are Windows touchpads still so crap?)
- Why do laptop manufacturers no longer sell models with actual buttons under the touchpad?
Machine translation
- Way to force certain terms to be translated a certain way (using a project glossary)?
- Program to monitor changes being made by the translator to MT output and auto-change it?
MediaWiki
memoQ
Regular expressions (regex)
Straight (') or curly (’) quotes
- How_can_I_make_memoQ_automatically_type_curly_(‘…’,_“…”)_apostrophes_and_quotes?
- Change all "straight quotes" to ‘curly’ with Find and replace (regex mode) in memoQ (in one replacement)
- For SEO purposes, is it better to use straight (') or curly (’) apostrophes and quotes?
SEO
Things I do each time I set up a new computer
- How to Disable the Insert Key on Windows 10?
- How to increase size of fonts in File Explorer (without changing size of text globally) (with System Font Size Changer from WinTools)