P.S.: There is one thing I do not understand though. According to https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo the language of simple.wp is "en", but MessagesSimple.php seems to be taken into account (instead of "edit" it has "change" in the UI, one of only two changes in MessagesSimple to MessagesEn). So it seems that the language is "simple" -- why does it say "en" in the siteinfo?

Hi Denny, On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrandecic(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: to It does after the list admin approves it, but you may just want to subscribe[1]. answer No problem. We like people answering their own question. More time for us to do other things :). than There are a few more, actually. See includes/DefaultSettings.php, $wgDummyLanguageCodes. as as That's an issue with the Wikimedia setup, I guess. If the language code could be different from the subdomain name, that is what should be done. It's probably not as simple as it looks. See next item. That, and a past in which there was less attention for trying to stick to a particular standard. Doesn't really matter, we're stuck with it for now, and should try to not make it worse, and fix it on the long run. For the 5+ years that I'm involved in MediaWiki development, there have been requests to rename wikis to more appropriate subdomain names, but for some reason, no progress has been made on it yet. These 10+ requests are tracked in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/19986. into Thanks for mentioning. That shouldn't have been there. Fixed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/7035/. Because it *is* English. It just should be English with a reduced vocabulary. There have been many debates in the past over its usefulness, and if possibly other languages should also get a simple vocabulary Wikimedia project (and subdomain). This is just for reference, please do not comment on this in this thread, but start a new one if you'd wish to discuss simple language versions. Not sure if this made your insight clearer, but at least I hope I was able to add some details :). [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n Cheers! -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Localisation Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate