Exactly! Why not use such a situation of political discontent as motivation for localisation?!?

The only reason that there’s Russian displayed in Ukrainian wiki products is that these items haven’t been translated yet.

Fwiw,

Oliver

From: Gerard Meijssen [mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 February 2014 11:01
To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
Subject: Re: [Langcom] Deleting of fallback for a language

Hoi,

Given the political situation in the Ukraine, it is obviously a reaction to the current regime and the associated discontent. It does however not negate the fact that most people still know Russian. It does however not negate the fact that all Russian will go away by translating the software.
Thanks,

GerardM

On 6 February 2014 08:51, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com> wrote:

@ Michael, Karen: Naturally it is better if it is all translated into the language itself, but I don't see a reason why one should ignore a community consensus.
It might also be asked whether a fallback introduced after community requests can or cannot be removed in the same way.

What can be said however is that a decision on Wikipedia alone could not be enough since also others use MediaWiki. It could maybe be disabled only for uk.wp.
We should also not forget Langcom doesn't have to say anything about MediaWiki development and configuration; developers do this.

Am 05.02.2014 21:54 schrieb "Bohdan Melnychuk" <base-w@yandex.ru>:

Hi,
Ukrainian Wikipedia community holds vote for disabling Russian fallback language for Ukrainian interface language (https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія:Кнайпа_(пропозиції)#Зміна мовного приорітету для оголошень). Could langcom give procedural advices for how it shall be done the right way (e.g. I think there should be links to this vote from portal at TWN and in other Ukrainian Wikimedia projects' village pumps). We have cases when such our requests were not done by developers in spite of community decision so this time we need to know what way we should follow to done it finally.
Sincerely,
User:Base

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