2007/3/27, GerardM <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
The result would be like it was before that an
increasing number of
projects
are not supported with a language message file. There are two parts to
this
problem; MediaWiki is not only used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki is not only
used by the Wikimedia Foundation. Creating a message file for a language
is
a job that does not take long. It needs doing.
But does it need doing before anything else is done? If people are happy to
work in a strange interface, why not let them? And if they HAVE made an
interface, as you say 2 languages have already been bullied by you into
doing, then why not simply use that? All it takes is someone with SVN access
to upload it, no?
Once a new project IS started, a message file HAS to be created. The
difference is that the moment when the message file is
created is moved
forward. The difference is that a new language has to be supported like
any
other language. It is not acceptable that new languages are getting a
substandard service.
Apparently it is more acceptable to you to not give it any service at
all....
Every language is to be treated equal; at this moment some languages are
more equal then others.
And I don't see how you are improving on this situation by not allowing the
languages a place in Wikipedia at all.
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