That is what you say.
I agree with him. Here’s a string. It’s not in Ukrainian. It falls back to Russian, which
nearly all Ukrainian users can read. Or it falls back to English, which fewer Ukrainians
can read. Either way, they’re wasting their time with political posturing about Russian
when they should just be getting on with translating the strings into Ukrainian.
I mean, really.
Michael
Am 07.02.2014 16:47 schrieb "Gerard Meijssen"
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
Yes and it is a disserve to do this.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 February 2014 22:08, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
No.
MediaWiki's fallback always last falls back to English. If a fallback to Russian is
removed, the fallback to English becomes active.
Am 06.02.2014 18:03 schrieb "Michael Everson" <everson(a)evertype.com>om>:
On 5 Feb 2014, at 23:51, MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)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.
You can’t just BLANK the strings for translation. If they are offended by Russian for
some impractical political ideal, then they can use the English strings as fallback. But
if they blank the strings (which is all I can imagine “disabling” fallback is) then
important messages for users will be stripped out and that will cause operational and
interoperational chaos.
Michael Everson *
http://www.evertype.com/
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