Hello,
It has been a busy week again. No new messages got added this week,
but there were some changes. I got most of the plural support done and
renamed members to nmembers for consistency.
I started writing some maintenance scripts I mentioned shortly in the
last news posting. I made an ignore list of messages that should not
be translated. Currently it has the messages shown below, which I
quickly gathered some evening. Suggestions for messages to be added or
removed are welcome.
Latest translation statistics at [1] are created using this ignore
list. Looking at the stats, languages translated over 90% are Id, Cs,
Fi, Ru, De, Pt, Es and Hr. These numbers however don't tell much about
quality. I hope you keep up good quality too!
I also made some scripts to check up for some common problems in
translated messages. Results are at [2]. Currently it lists three
types of problems.
First problem is pretty obvious: missing parameters like $1, $2 and so
on. All of these should be looked carefully and fixed.
Second type of problem is messages translated to empty string or dash
('' or '-'). This may mean (1) missing functionality, (2) that a
message that is in ignore list below is translated, (3) or just
intended behaviour.
Third type of problem is trailing whitespace in messages. All messages
can be edited trough Mediawiki-namespace as wiki pages, and wiki pages
can't have trailing whitespace. Trailing whitespace in messages
confuses Mediawiki software, and should be removed.
Ignore list:
'sidebar',
'linktrail',
'linkprefix',
'sitenotice',
'anonnotice',
'loginend',
'signupend',
'history_copyright',
'googlesearch',
'shareddescriptionfollows',
'randompage-url',
'metadata-fields',
'catseparator',
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics
[2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt
Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-08 to 2005-05-14
Plural support:
-'categories1'
'categories'
-'restorelink1'
'restorelink'
-'subcategorycount1'
'subcategorycount'
-'categoryarticlecount1'
'categoryarticlecount'
'nbytes'
'ncategories'
'nlinks'
'nmembers'
'nrevisions'
'nviews'
Modified:
'administrators'
'exif-pixelxdimension' (spelling mistake)
'filewasdeleted' (now wikitext instead of plaintext)
Renamed:
'members' to 'nmembers' (see above)
--
Niklas Laxström
Heads up! "metadata" was declared twice and used for different
purposes, the latter winning. I've renamed the conflicting metadata
help message to "metadata_help" and caused it to be treated as wiki
text, thus rendering the old "metadata_page" message useless.
See the diff for r14232 in the main repo. to see what's what.
Rob Church
FYI, as per rev. 14215
Added:
None
Removed:
* 'categories1' => 'Category'
* 'restorelink1' => 'one deleted edit'
* 'subcategorycount1' => "There is $1 subcategory to this category."
* 'categoryarticlecount1' => "There is $1 article in this category."
Changed:
* 'categories' => 'Categories' to 'categories' =>
'{{PLURAL:$1|Category|Categories}}'
* 'administrators' => 'Project:Administrators' to 'administrators' =>
'{{ns:project}}:Administrators'
* 'restorelink' => '$1 deleted edits' to 'restorelink' =>
'{{PLURAL:$1|one deleted edit|$1 deleted edits}}'
* 'subcategorycount' => "There are $1 subcategories to this category."
to 'subcategorycount' => "There {{PLURAL:$1|is one subcategory|are $1
subcategories}} to this category."
* 'categoryarticlecount' => "There are $1 articles in this category."
to 'categoryarticlecount' => "There {{PLURAL:$1|is one article|are $1
articles}} in this category."
Hi!
During updating Belarusian translation I received suggestion to use
{{ns:Project}}: instead of Project:. I think will be good idea to make
same changes in Messages.php, which is used as base for translations.
In some messages wiki could be replaced with {{SITENAME}} (for example
in categoriespagetext)
With best regards,
Eugene.
As of 16:42 12/05/2006 UTC, "filewasdeleted" supports wiki markup.
Also, as advanced warning, I'll be changing the "X was moved to Y"
message so that the $1 parameter is a link to the redirect page with
"redirect=no" in the URL.
Rob Church
Just a heads-up to interface translators: [[MediaWiki:Members]] is
actually quite misleading. It says just "members" in English, so out of
context, it seems to mean "members" in the sense of a part of an
organization or group. When we translated it into Vietnamese, it ended
up being the same term we use for "registered user". In fact, it's used
in [[Special:Mostlinkedcategories]] (and nowhere else AFAICT) to refer
to all the pages that link to a particular category. So it might be
better to translate it as "pages".
--
Minh Nguyen <mxn(a)zoomtown.com>
AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn(a)myjabber.net; Blog: http://mxn.f2o.org/
Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> We've no control over external services, sorry.
I've filled out the Gmane subscribe form [1] and requested the group
name of "gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n", in keeping with the other
mediawiki-* lists here. [2] Once they approve, you can ask them to
import the existing messages. [3]
[1] http://gmane.org/subscribe.php
[2] http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=mediawiki
[3] http://gmane.org/import.php
--
Minh Nguyen <mxn(a)zoomtown.com>
AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn(a)myjabber.net; Blog: http://mxn.f2o.org/
A small tip: to find most MediaWiki: messages that haven't yet been
translated, view the HTML source of [[Special:Allmessages]] and search
the source code for the following string:
" class="new" title="MediaWiki:
This will lead you to any redlinked pages in the MediaWiki namespace,
and the trailing colon ensures that you skip over any talk pages. I
found Niklas' "Internationalisation news" a lot more useful for finding
out about recent interface changes, but if you find that your wiki has
some catching-up to do, this is the way to go.
--
Minh Nguyen <mxn(a)zoomtown.com>
AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn(a)myjabber.net; Blog: http://mxn.f2o.org/