More suggested ignored messages (by the way, the list should be added to the official tools in maintenance):

* "addsection" => "+" * "widthheight" => "$1x$2" * "media_sample" => "Media.ogg" * "number_of_watching_users_RCview" => "[$1]" (may be deleted - why should it be changed?) * "sorbs" => "SORBS DNSBL" (may be deleted, by the way - is it used at all?) * "accesskey-" messages => some accesskey in English * "marksaspatrolledlink" => "[$1]" (may be deleted - why should it be changed?) * "variantname-" messages => some English letters should not be changed * "trackback" => "; $4$5 : [$2 $1]" (may be deleted - why should it be changed?) * "trackbackexcerpt" => "; $4$5 : [$2 $1]: <nowiki>$3</nowiki>" (may be deleted - why should it be changed?) * "unit-pixel" => "px" (how should it be translated?) * "newtalkseperator" => "_" (what is its use at all?)

Niklas Laxström wrote:

Hello,

Apart from Monsters winning the song contest, no monstrous changes this week. Polish, Swedish, French and Italian got bigger updates and many other languages smaller updates. Many changes were made to Messages.php to keep you busy on this week too :). Statistics and list of problems at [1] and [2] has been updated.

List of ignored messages got some additions. Currently it has the following messges:

'sidebar', // contains help 'googlesearch', 'linktrail', 'linkprefix', 'sitetitle', 'sitesubtitle', 'sitenotice', 'anonnotice', 'loginend', 'signupend', 'history_copyright', 'shareddescriptionfollows', 'randompage-url', 'recentchanges-url', 'pubmedurl', 'rfcurl', 'metadata-fields', // Objected, contains help 'catseparator', 'signupend', 'newarticletextanon', 'talkpagetext', 'noarticletextanon', #'edittools', // Objected, not on the list

This list is also at [3].

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt [3] http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Ignored_messages

Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-14 to 2005-05-21

Added: +'nouserspecified'

Removed: -'whatlinkshere' (There was two of them, one was removed)

Renamed: -'wikipediapage' +'projectpage'

-'nstab-wp' +'nstab-project'

Modifed: 'mainpagedocfooter' (Urls changed) 'passwordremindertext' ($4) 'anontalkpagetext' (removed link to [[IP address]]) 'clearyourcache' (entity to literal unicode glyph) 'powersearchtext' 'largefile' (grammar) 'uploadnewversion' 'monobook.js' (ca-nstab-wp to ca-nstab-project) 'mediawarning' (removed newline)

Metadata changes: -'metadata' -'metadata_page' +'metadata-help'

{{ns:project}} changes: 'portal-url' 'aboutpage' 'bugreportspage' 'sitesupport-url' 'faqpage' 'disclaimerpage' 'privacypage' 'protectedtext' 'blockedtext' (also markup changes) 'newarticletext' 'protectedpagewarning' 'searchresulttext' 'grouppage-bot' 'grouppage-sysop' 'grouppage-steward' 'copyrightpage' 'confirmdeletetext' 'protectlogtext' 'protect-text' 'blockiptext'

While I agree with adding "unit-pixel" to the list, languages like Thai (which is very consistent about using their own script) have translated it. Also the Vietnamese locale has customized "widthheight" to use the proper multiplication symbol in Unicode (×; &times; or &#x00d7;) instead of the ASCII letter "x".

New message for the ignore list: licenses.

Niklas Laxström wrote:

Hello,

Apart from Monsters winning the song contest, no monstrous changes this week. Polish, Swedish, French and Italian got bigger updates and many other languages smaller updates. Many changes were made to Messages.php to keep you busy on this week too :). Statistics and list of problems at [1] and [2] has been updated.

List of ignored messages got some additions. Currently it has the following messges:

'sidebar', // contains help 'googlesearch', 'linktrail', 'linkprefix', 'sitetitle', 'sitesubtitle', 'sitenotice', 'anonnotice', 'loginend', 'signupend', 'history_copyright', 'shareddescriptionfollows', 'randompage-url', 'recentchanges-url', 'pubmedurl', 'rfcurl', 'metadata-fields', // Objected, contains help 'catseparator', 'signupend', 'newarticletextanon', 'talkpagetext', 'noarticletextanon', #'edittools', // Objected, not on the list

This list is also at [3].

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Localization_statistics [2] http://nike.users.idler.fi/dev/problems.txt [3] http://nike.users.idler.fi/betawiki/Ignored_messages

Changes to messages in period of 2005-05-14 to 2005-05-21

Added: +'nouserspecified'

Removed: -'whatlinkshere' (There was two of them, one was removed)

Renamed: -'wikipediapage' +'projectpage'

-'nstab-wp' +'nstab-project'

Modifed: 'mainpagedocfooter' (Urls changed) 'passwordremindertext' ($4) 'anontalkpagetext' (removed link to [[IP address]]) 'clearyourcache' (entity to literal unicode glyph) 'powersearchtext' 'largefile' (grammar) 'uploadnewversion' 'monobook.js' (ca-nstab-wp to ca-nstab-project) 'mediawarning' (removed newline)

Metadata changes: -'metadata' -'metadata_page' +'metadata-help'

{{ns:project}} changes: 'portal-url' 'aboutpage' 'bugreportspage' 'sitesupport-url' 'faqpage' 'disclaimerpage' 'privacypage' 'protectedtext' 'blockedtext' (also markup changes) 'newarticletext' 'protectedpagewarning' 'searchresulttext' 'grouppage-bot' 'grouppage-sysop' 'grouppage-steward' 'copyrightpage' 'confirmdeletetext' 'protectlogtext' 'protect-text' 'blockiptext'