i18n is the least of our concerns with respect to unmaintained extensions. If they
don't even work with recent MediaWiki versions in the first place, getting them
translated to 200 languages is not only pointless, but actually harmful as it diverts
translators' time and attention away from projects that actually work/are maintained.
Note that what the extension page says on
mw.org is not an accurate indicator for whether
or not an abandoned extension works, because in all likelihood the page hasn't been
updated in years. The talk page might provide useful info if people are reporting they
cannot get it to work, but that's as far as you'll get without installing it and
testing it yourself.
If someone is interested in maintaining an extension currently in SVN, I think the current
method of requesting a new Git repository[1] on a case-by-case basis works just fine (at
least, I'm unaware of any issues with it).
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/New_repositories/Requests
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Ryan Schmidt
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On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Ricordisamoa
<ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org> wrote:
Il 27/10/2014 16:38, Andre Klapper ha scritto:
On Mon,
2014-10-27 at 16:08 +0100, Ricordisamoa wrote:
There are currently several hundreds extensions hosted on SVN
<https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/> and many
of them are still working according to
www.mediawiki.org.
However, a quick glance shows that many of them are overlapping each
other and likely to be unmaintained.
It should be of interest to the MediaWiki Cooperation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Cooperation> group to merge
extensions where appropriate and move them to git if still useful.
If nobody
volunteers to maintain them, what's the gain of mass-moving?
andre
Of course they should be maintained!
But if they're moved to Git, their i18n can be hosted on TranslateWiki and benefit
from regular updates.
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