[Mediawiki-i18n] Misleading interface message

Rob Church robchur at gmail.com
Sat May 13 13:13:31 UTC 2006


On 13/05/06, Minh Nguyen <mxn at zoomtown.com> wrote:
> Just a heads-up to interface translators: [[MediaWiki:Members]] is
> actually quite misleading. It says just "members" in English, so out of
> context, it seems to mean "members" in the sense of a part of an
> organization or group. When we translated it into Vietnamese, it ended
> up being the same term we use for "registered user". In fact, it's used
> in [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories]] (and nowhere else AFAICT) to refer
> to all the pages that link to a particular category. So it might be
> better to translate it as "pages".

Damn, I should have listened to Niklas when I created it. It's also
used in SpecialCategories.php and SpecialWantedcategories.php
according to the Subversion logs.

I'm open to renaming it.


Rob Church



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