WereSpielChequers, 23/07/2012 13:47:

We need to enhance the upload wizard so that it works like hotcat and gives you the redirected category

MediaWiki assumes that redirects to categories don't exist, Hotcat is arguably broken rather than not.

I didn't address your localisation nightmare comment because I don't understand localisation well enough to comment on it.

Creating potentially hundreds of categories not linked to each other in any way is the wrong way to localise any kind of string on a wiki. Have you ever tried an old translation request on Meta, and compared it to how it works with the Translate extension? See also https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Translating_the_wiki_way

Nemo