[Mediawiki-i18n] Internationalizing project names

[Erik Bernhardson]

A third idea that has been proposed to use the information in wikidata.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206855 contains the mapping from 'ruwiki' to
a translatable label.  It also has many of the other wmf projects. This
labeled would then be plugged into the message:

    Showing results from the $1

This is being discussed at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112349 which
is the phab ticket that prompted this thread.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Erik Bernhardson <
ebernhardson at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Yes we are intending to show them in the interface language, the problem
> is the number of messages. The config repo for mediawiki at wmf has 879
> projects. There are 369 translation languages. That means if we use the
> standard i18n approach there will be (maximum) 324k translated strings for
> this one UI element. At the very least if we did go that way we should
> probably do that in a way that is usable in more than just this one
> specific UI element.
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:44 PM, gfb hjjhjh <c933103 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How about translating them in the same way as interface language? Is it
>> feasible? I think people would expect such a message show in same language
>> as their interface language instead of content language.
>> 2015/09/16 10:00 "Erik Bernhardson" <ebernhardson at wikimedia.org>:
>>
>>>
>>> Here are two ideas from talking to a few people, I'm not sure either is
>>> the right approach though
>>>
>>> First is to use CLDR to convert russian -> russische, and and plug that
>>> into an i18n message. This would have to be in WikimediaMessages and
>>> override a message without wikipedia. This feels awkward and will likely be
>>> wrong with with some language pairs.
>>>
>>>     Showing results from the $1 wikipedia
>>>
>>> Idea 2 comes from observing that we are initially able to detect 50
>>> languages and are only mapping to a primary wikipedia for each language. We
>>> could make 50 matching i18n messages in WikimediaMessages with a fallback
>>> to a generic message.
>>>
>>> Search-results-from-enwiki: Showing results from the English Wikipedia
>>> Search-results-from-frwiki: Showing results from the French Wikipedia
>>> Etc.
>>>
>>> This will have scaling issues as we integrate wiktionarys and other
>>> projects but is less than a thousand messages so is feasible.
>>>
>>> On Sep 15, 2015 3:34 PM, "Erik Bernhardson" <ebernhardson at wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Within search we are moving forward with cross-wiki searching.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > This means if you go to de.wikipedia.org and search for
>>> ''Ревест-Сен-Мартен" we should show a message like:
>>> >
>>> >> No results found on the German Wikipedia
>>> >>
>>> >> Showing results from the Russian Wikipedia
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Except of course, it should be (beware machine translation):
>>> >
>>> >> Keine Ergebnisse auf dem deutschen Wikipedia gefunden
>>> >> Zeige Ergebnis aus der russischen Wikipedia
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So somehow, we have to map from a wiki id (ruwiki, enwiki, dewiki,
>>> etc) to a localized (not for that wiki, for every other wiki in all
>>> languages) version of that project name. How can we go about this?
>>> >
>>>
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