Hi Gerard,
Long time since I visited betawiki too. Do send in the details about
kn translation on betawiki off-the-list. We had translated namespace
strings in addition to the translation of other strings earlier and we
also had got them committed to the cvs. Kannada pack had complete
translation on earlier versions but looks like as in the latest stable
release of mediawiki, some new strings are to be translated and several
old translations are to be modified.
- Hari Prasad
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:18 +0100, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
India is a big country populated by many people speaking many
languages. It is no surprise that there are many wikipedias in
languages spoken in India. As you are active in organising a chapter
for the Wikimedia Foundation, I want to ask your collaboration on the
localisation for the Indian languages in MediaWiki. When you look at
the statistics for the localisation of MediaWiki and its extensions,
you will find that the Indian languages are not really supported. This
in marked contrast with the experience when you visit for instance the
hi.wikipedia.org.
I want to ask you to collaborate on the central localisation of
MediaWiki in the "BetaWiki". Central localisation has big advantages,
a user interface will be properly supported in all Wikimedia
Foundation projects and the language will also be supported in Wikis
outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. At the moment more then hundred
MediaWiki extensions are supported in MediaWiki. Some are of specific
importance for projects or languages. As BetaWiki is appreciated more
and more as the place to be for MediaWiki localisation, this number
grows and with it the potential for collaboration.
The first step is to import the existing localisation from your active
projects in to BetaWiki. The next step is to make sure that all the
messages do not contain information that is specific to Wikipedia so
that it is indeed useful in other projects. Localisation of MediaWiki
is important and this makes it a requirement for new projects in a
language. What is of more relevance is that it is easier to edit a
Wiki when the user interface is consistent from one project to the
next.
When we make it easier for people to read and edit MediaWiki, we will
grow the community of people that make our projects a success.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page BetaWiki
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics Statistics