[Mediawiki-i18n] maintaining the local messages

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
We do not localise for zh-CN. We localise for zh-Hans and zh-Hant.
Consequently I do not understand really why there is a mention of zh-CN on
the Chinese Wikipedia to do with localisation in the first place.
(obviously I can not read the text)
Thanks,
     Gerard

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Liangent <liangent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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