On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:30:27 +0100, Robert Riebisch rr@bttr-software.de wrote:
I know this is a long-winded way of saying "do it yourself", but the
But http://de.wikipedia.org/ already has translated ca-... messages!
Aha, then the answer is even simpler: look at *their* [[MediaWiki:monobook.js]]. Everything else still applies, it's just they've done step 1 for you! :D
For future reference, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_namespace if you are not already aware of how the [[MediaWiki:...]] pages operate. Basically, they allow you to override almost everything that's in the LanguageXX.php files "live" by just editting the wiki.
On the one hand, this means you don't have to edit (or wait for someone with direct access to the server to edit) the PHP files to correct, translate, or customize the interface messages; on the other hand, the interface messages that *are* in the PHP files tend to get left uneditted for *longer*, because people will happily continue with the version in their local database which overrides the PHP file anyway. Ultimately, I think we need to come up with a new l10n framework that addresses that paradox, but for now it works "just well enough".