-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have created [[MediaWiki:Blogtext]] and [[MediaWiki:Blog-url]] to the WMF wiki. Shall I wait until [[MediaWiki:Blogtext]] is translated into multiple languages before I add this to the places where Jay is asking me to? Cary - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: WMF wiki updates Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:02:14 -0700 From: Jay Walsh <jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org> Reply-To: jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: Cary Bass <cbass(a)wikimedia.org> Cary, when you get a chance please update the WMF wiki tool system. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home We still need a 'Wikimedia blog' link on the left-hand menu under 'about wikimedia' And at the very bottom of the page, in the bar with the 'A wikimedia project' logo, please also add a "Wikimedia blog" link between the "About Wikimedia Foundation" and "Disclaimers" link. Thanks! - -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 Fax: 415.882.0495 E-Mail: cary(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote: Since only registered users can be benefitted by localized interface messages (there are ways to sneak it but we haven't implemented it). And a i18n related MediaWiki extention was not on that site (you remember Brion rejected). So translation is nice but interface translation is no matter of us currently (sigh). We need to hack it later.

2008/4/29 Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com>om>: The problem with that is that unless you encode all links with &uselang=XX, the interface will "jump" back to default (English) after just one click. It could be argued that that effect is disorienting, confusing and unexpected (there is no clear way to understand "what you did" to make the localised text disappear, nor "how to get it back"). So, IMO that is a very poor hack that is no substitute for a proper solution. (We tried to confront this problem at Commons. :) No good solution yet. More tech is needed.) cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list Translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l