[Mediawiki-i18n] Fwd: [Translators-l] Dialects like "en-gb" on MediaWiki extensions

[Neil Kandalgaonkar]

On 12/14/10 11:47 PM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
>> The problem, therefore, is how MediaWiki handles dialects as separate
>> languages, and if it’s not fixed now, it could be a much bigger
>> problem as the usability initiative affects more and more components
>> of the website.
>
> MediaWiki already handles this [...]
> I assume that Upload Wizard is using mostly JavaScript, which needs
> its own localisation mechanism, which is not yet up to the same level
> as MediaWiki itself.

Yes and no. It *used* to be all Javascript, which had the problems 
Niklas mentions. So I converted it to PHP, in the last few days we had 
before launch, relatively quickly.

If I recall correctly Guillaume Paumier pointed out the issue with the 
dialects and I said we'd get back to it later.

I was also uncertain what the performance effect would be of looking up 
multiple images via InstantCommons. I guess the mapping of a language to 
an available tutorial image needs to be cached.

If there are some people who want to fix it themselves, the file you 
want to modify is this one:

   extensions/UploadWizard/UploadWizard.php

And the method is:

   UploadWizardTutorial::getFile()

I added a bug here:

   https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26342


-- 
Neil Kandalgaonkar  |) <neilk at wikimedia.org>