[Mediawiki-i18n] maintaining the local messages

[Liangent]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> Many of you are actively working on the localisation of MediaWiki. In the
> last couple of days I blogged twice on possible maintenance jobs on your
> local wiki.
>
> There are two parts to it:
>
> the part where you copy messages to translatewiki; you have to be a twn
> translator to do this
> the part where you remove messages on your local wiki; you have to be a
> local admin to do this
>
> The bottom line is that messages available at translatewiki.net will be
> available on any Wiki. This is why you want to always localise at
> translatewiki. When messages exist that are the same on your wiki and on
> translatewiki they may cause problems in the future. This is why localising
> locally is typically not the thing to do.
>
> In the post a Toolserver tool is mentioned that makes it relatively easy to
> do all this.
> Thanks.
>       Gerard
>
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/cleaning-up-mediawiki-namespace.html
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/02/cleaning-up-mediawiki-namespace-ii.html
>
> http://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=cleanuplocalmsgs
>

It reports[1] zhwiki has MediaWiki:About/zh-cn with content "关于", but
its real content is "关于维基百科"[2].

[1] http://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=cleanuplocalmsgs&lang=zh#identical
[2] http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:About/zh-cn

-liangent