On Jan 20, 2008 2:44 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
After extensive internal discussion, we have overhauled the localization requirements for all new wikis. This is very good news for most requests, since first wikis in a language now only need to translate the 496 most important interface messages, instead of all 1736 MediaWiki messages. Subsequent wikis in that language will need to translate all MediaWiki messages as well as extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to provide a fully accessible editing environment for editors. Fortunately, we expect many of these messages to be translated over time by the first community, so that the second wiki's community will not actually have much left to translate.
Heh; from [[496 (number)]]:
"496 is most notable for being a perfect number, and one of the earliest numbers to be recognized as such."
Bemusedly;
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]