[Mediawiki-i18n] Plural Forms for Fractional Numbers

[Santhosh Thottingal]

Hi,

We, the i18n team,  are working on automated test cases for the plural
forms for languages and we found support for fractional numbers is
incomplete.
Some languages have a separate plural form if the number is a fraction number.

For example,  Russian language,  according to CLDR[1] has 4 plural
forms. They are:

'one' for 	1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61...
'few'  for	2-4, 22-24, 32-34...
'many' for 	0, 5-20, 25-30, 35-40...
'other' for	1.2, 2.07, 5.94...

Note the 'other' form, it is for fractional numbers.  This bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28128 also lists a
Polish language example. In the above Russian rules, Mediawiki as of
now defines only 3 forms. So that is a bug as reported in Bug 28128.

If you can check the plural form definition for your language in CLDR
using http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html
 and check if Mediawiki implementation is correct for your language,
it will be a great help to us.

CLDR plural forms may not be 100% correct, but there are ways to
correct it.  Mediawiki plural rules often fallback to the last form
supplied using {{PLURAL...}}  syntax, but that is not well tested. You
can test the behavior of plural in your language by trying a test page
with content like
{{PLURAL:10.5|plural-form-1|plural-form-2|plural-form-n}} in your
wiki. If you give correct number of forms as per your language, and if
not getting the correct form with fraction numbers, let us know by
reporting a bug in Mediawiki bugzilla[2].

[1] http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html#ru
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/


Thanks
Santhosh Thottingal