In Alemannisch, Plattdüütsch and Seeltersk, "(Auswahlhilfe)" does the job, while the text in Ripoarisch is "(Hölp mem Ußsöhke)", so it appears that some members of the German language continuum see it differently.
Regards, Ole
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Juergen Fenn <schneeschmelze@googlemail.com
wrote:
2013/11/23 Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org:
If you look at the signup form in German (https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Anmelden&type=signup
)
you'll notice that the link to the username policy is very long.
This message, which you can view at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Createacct-helpusername was customized locally by a German admin.
I'd recommend that this message be shortened so that it doesn't overflow
in
to the next line like that. The message is designed to be on the right
hand
side of the label "Benutzername", and is meant to not be an entire
sentence
like that. Even something as short as "Help" could work I think.
If anyone has recommendations for the easiest way to correct this, I'd appreciate your advice very much.
Steven, I'd recommend not to change that message because it is correct and you can understand easily what it means. German phrases are usually longer than their English equivalent, so that's all right (the German translation of an article from Scientific American can be two pages longer than the English version).
Regards, Jürgen.
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