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

[Rotem Liss]

"The only problem" in my last message means "the only place".


Niklas Laxström 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)
>  
>

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