Guide on choosing between Weblate's built-in Whoosh index and external TMX files for large-scale localization, focusing on performance, Celery memory management, and index maintenance.

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Article0 replies4,798 followingPosted 02 Aug 2026, 21:53 UTC95.7K views772 votes

Using Weblate Component Linking to Share Translations Across Projects

Learn how Weblate’s component linking and shared translation memory let teams translate common UI strings once and propagate them across multiple projects, reducing duplicate work while preserving per‑component controls.

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Article1 reply1 comment2,591 followingPosted 25 Dec 2025, 06:54 UTC27.8K views1,874 votes

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Leveraging Weblate Translation Memory for Consistent UI Strings

Learn how to turn on Weblate’s Translation Memory, tune its similarity threshold, and reuse approved translations to reduce repetitive work and improve consistency.

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Article1 reply1 comment532 followingPosted 07 Nov 2025, 06:26 UTC105.7K views2,557 votes

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Using Weblate's Shared Translation Memory to Reduce Translation Work

Learn how to enable Weblate's shared translation memory to reuse approved strings across components, cut translation effort, and avoid common pitfalls.

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Question1 answer1 comment1,036 followingPosted 06 Dec 2025, 04:24 UTC130.9K views2,128 votes

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Synchronous TM suggestions vs deferred indexing for concurrent Weblate edits

Goal is to keep editor save latency predictable when multiple users edit the same project via Weblate UI or API. Weblate stores translation units with Django ORM transactions. Background work for commits, translation memory indexing and machine translation suggestions runs via Celery on the same database. With default queues, UI requests can contend for I/O

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