[Mediawiki-i18n] Internationalizing MediaWiki: namespace strings

Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 14:05:18 UTC 2011


Hoi,
Namespaces are localised in translatewiki.net ... there are for instance
quite a number of names for namespaces which are "genderised" waiting for
implementation.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 1 April 2011 01:29, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Is there any way to involve TranslateWiki in translated MediaWiki:
> namespace strings?
>
> Sometimes things are translated via subpages, e.g. MediaWiki:Foo/fr,
> MediaWiki:Foo/de, etc. That works okay for static texts, but it's hard
> to know when or if we're missing a translation.
>
> It gets worse on Commons where licenses are defined by
> MediaWiki:Licenses. Ignoring the "language hacks" that were done like
> "enownwork", this is really a data structure that has to be
> internationalized, and sometimes the different translations of the data
> structure get out of sync....
>
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