Thanks for the information. I had looked at the beta Survey Tool earlier and saw there
was no way to add new locales. CLDR looks like a great tool, but the CLDR process seems
like it does take a bit of time to learn. It feels like it somewhat defeats the goal of
getting in-country scholars and other experts involved, especially when we're talking
about small languages. Those experts are not necessarily "computer people",
which leads once again to update and review by non-expert proxy. That being said,
I'll see what I can do.
Stacey
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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 11:46 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-i18n] A localisation update and the CLDR
Hoi,
As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation decided to change its code repository system.
They replaced Subversion or SVN with GIT. As a consequence the pipeline of moving
localisations from
translatewiki.net into GIT has been broken. The good news is that for a
first time it has been possible to move localisations from translatewiki for the MediaWiki
core messages manually. We expect that this will happen in an automated way in the next
week. The LocalisationUpdate is said to be functional and consequently we expect that
certainly by Wednesday updates will be noticeable.
Let us hope that it will not take much longer for the extension messages to reach their
destination.
It is that time again, the CLDR or the Common Locale Data Repository is open for updates
and new data. As you know, MediaWiki relies on correct data from this source. Sadly many
language we support are not supported in the CLDR. We also know that there is data that
should change because it is wrong. We have started a page [1] explaining what we are
looking for from you.
So our question to you is to read the instructions and do what is necessary for your
language. Please let us know[1] if the content is complete or incomplete and please let us
know your experience when you want to change the data.
Thanks,
Gerard
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Language_support_team/CLDR-2012
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