[Mediawiki-i18n] help fixing hardcoded links in message files

[Jon Harald Søby]

Hoi!

This has been the standard for a long time; Gangleri was always
careful to tell everybody not to do such things (and IMO, it is
obiovus that one shouldn't). Is anyone doing this in new messages on
BetaWiki?

On 2/6/07, Daniel Arnold <arnomane at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Most of you did probably read that thread (embedded links in UI messages
> (splitted from "Major flaws...")):
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/thread.html#29298
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-February/thread.html#29337
>
> (Please read it in order to understand the following)
>
> I now have fixed the internal links in MessagesEn.php and all Message files
> from A to C (except MessagesAr.php which will follow later).
>
> So my work resulted in these style guidelines for translations:
>
> 1) Do not use local namespace names in standard message strings. The same
> applies for localised wiki markup (like translations of "thumb" and such).
> Especially something like "Benutzerseite von [[Benutzer:$1|$1]]"
> (German "user page of ...") instead of "Benutzerseite von [[User:$1|$1]]" is
> dangerous as the link does not work in wikis with a different name for user
> namespace (basically all wikis with a default language other than German,
> canonical namespace links get translated to localised, use {{ns:user}} and
> such when not using alternative link text or text outside links).
>
> 2) Do not link article namespace images or or other local content. Something
> like "Your [[IP adress]] has been blocked..." is wrong. It has to be "Your IP
> adress has been blocked...". No other wiki than Wikipedia or a wiki on
> networking will usually have an article about IP adresses.
>
> 3) No Cross-wiki/interwiki links. Especially links like "[[w:en:IP adress]]"
> are not allowed as well as interwiki link definitions into Wikimedia wikis
> are removed in default MediaWiki.
>
> 4) Do not directly link any project pages in messages. Use only the link
> definitions such as {{MediaWiki:helppage}}. Do not create new link
> definitions in your local MessagesXX.php file.
>
> As you probably can imagin fixing all 151 message files takes quite a while
> and thatfor I call for your help. As well I wasn't able to fix every link
> (tagged with '# problem with link' in message files). So please retranslate
> them now.
>
> The broken strings in desparate need for translation are so far (just the
> Message files from A to C):
>
> MessagesBe.php
> * 'blockiptext'
> * 'copyrightwarning'
> * 'protectedpagewarning'
> * 'uploadtext'
>
> MessagesBg.php
> * 'protectedtext'
> * 'newarticletext'
> * 'protectedpagewarning'
> * 'protectlogtext'
>
> MessagesBpy.php
> * 'blockedtext'
>
> MessagesBr.php
> * 'protectedpagewarning'
> * 'recentchangestext'
> * 'uploadtext'
> * 'confirmdeletetext'
> * 'protectlogtext'
> * 'blockiptext'
>
> MessagesBs.php
> * 'blockiptext'
> * 'confirmdeletetext'
> * 'newarticletext'
> * 'noarticletext'
> * 'noexactmatch'
> * 'protect-text'
> * 'protectedtext'
> * 'protectlogtext'
>
> MessagesCa.php
> * 'protectedtext'
> * 'uploadtext'
>
> MessagesCs.php
> * 'uploadtext'
> * 'blockiptext'
>
> MessagesCsb.php
> * 'recentchangestext'
> * 'uploadtext'
>
> MessagesCy.php
> * "protectedtext"
> * "protectedpagewarning"
> * "uploadtext"
> * "protectlogtext"
>
> That's all for now.
>
> Have fun,
> Arnomane
>
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