Hi Merlijn,

these updates are normaly made by /maintenance/update_namespaces.py bot script which calls the namespace via api. I've modified that script to be able dealing with all namespace aliases too. Anyway the order of ja: namespace and namespace alias has been changed and there is a difference between ja-wiki (1) and other projects like ja-wikinews (2). This caused me to change the family.py in r8236 as default (3) which has valid namespace aliases for all related mediawiki families in the right order (<namespace> first, <namespacealiases> behind in that list) and to override it in wikipedia_family (4). I do recommend not to change the family.py but the related wikia family file. Otherwise all mediawiki family files must have these override assignments you can find in wikipedia_family.py now.

(1) look at http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=... (2) look at http://ja.wikinews.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=n... (3) http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/family.py?r1=8... (4) http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/families/wikip...

I hope this explanation was understandable.

Greetings

xqt

----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl An: info@gno.de Datum: 16.04.2011 21:19 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-svn] SVN: [8236] trunk/pywikipedia

Hi xqt,

On IRC, someone complained about a bad namespace for "User page:" when creating a page on ja.wow.wikia. It was changed in this revision:

2010/6/2 xqt@svn.wikimedia.org

...

Revision: 8236 Author: xqt Date: 2010-06-02 12:47:02 +0000 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010)

Log Message:

update namespaces for wikipedia:ja

@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ 'io': u'Uzanto Debato', 'is': u'Notandaspjall', 'it': u'Discussioni utente',

•            'ja': [u'??????', u'???????'],
  

•            'ja': [u'???????', u'??????'],
            'jv': u'Dhiskusi Panganggo',
            'ka': [u'???????????? ????????', u'????????????
  

????????'],

...

            'kaa': u"Paydalan?wsh? sa'wbeti",

While jawiki seems to redirect the ''???????' variant to the '??????' variant.

Is there a reason not to change this back? And what are these updates based on? Wikimedia source code?

Best regards, Merlijn