[Mediawiki-i18n] Internationalisation news 2006-05-14

[Ivan R. Lanin]

Hi,

Thanks for the round up. It is very helpful for the translators :)

Regards, IRL.

On 5/15/06, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It has been a busy week again. No new messages got added this week,
> but there were some changes. I got most of the plural support done and
> renamed members to nmembers for consistency.
>
> I started writing some maintenance scripts I mentioned shortly in the
> last news posting. I made an ignore list of messages that should not
> be translated. Currently it has the messages shown below, which I
> quickly gathered some evening. Suggestions for messages to be added or
> removed are welcome.
>
> Latest translation statistics at [1] are created using this ignore
> list. Looking at the stats, languages translated over 90% are Id, Cs,
> Fi, Ru, De, Pt, Es and Hr. These numbers however don't tell much about
> quality. I hope you keep up good quality too!
>
> I also made some scripts to check up for some common problems in
> translated messages. Results are at [2]. Currently it lists three
> types of problems.
> First problem is pretty obvious: missing parameters like $1, $2 and so
> on. All of these should be looked carefully and fixed.
> Second type of problem is messages translated to empty string or dash
> ('' or '-'). This may mean (1) missing functionality, (2) that a
> message that is in ignore list below is translated, (3) or just
> intended behaviour.
> Third type of problem is trailing whitespace in messages. All messages
> can be edited trough Mediawiki-namespace as wiki pages, and wiki pages
> can't have trailing whitespace. Trailing whitespace in messages
> confuses Mediawiki software, and should be removed.
>
> Ignore list:
> 'sidebar',
> 'linktrail',
> 'linkprefix',
> 'sitenotice',
> 'anonnotice',
> 'loginend',
> 'signupend',
> 'history_copyright',
> 'googlesearch',
> 'shareddescriptionfollows',
> 'randompage-url',
> 'metadata-fields',
> 'catseparator',
>
>
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics
> [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt
>
>
> Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-08 to 2005-05-14
>
> Plural support:
> -'categories1'
> 'categories'
>
> -'restorelink1'
> 'restorelink'
>
> -'subcategorycount1'
> 'subcategorycount'
> -'categoryarticlecount1'
> 'categoryarticlecount'
>
> 'nbytes'
> 'ncategories'
> 'nlinks'
> 'nmembers'
> 'nrevisions'
> 'nviews'
>
> Modified:
> 'administrators'
> 'exif-pixelxdimension' (spelling mistake)
> 'filewasdeleted' (now wikitext instead of plaintext)
>
> Renamed:
> 'members' to 'nmembers' (see above)
> --
> Niklas Laxström
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