Hoi,
Given that on Februari first 96.07% of the most used messages were
localised, it is clear that some of the most used messages were not even
localised. Consequently your puh puh reaction that only the rare messages
are affected is not correct.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/8/20 Kaare Olsen <kaare(a)nightcall.dk>
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:14:14 +0200
Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One of the reasons why Danish has been sluggish
may be that the
localisation of Danish was not optimal; in Februari 83.66% of the
MediaWiki messages and 14.11% of the WMF used extensions were
localised. This has improved to 100.00% and 59.30% respectively ...
compare this with Norwegian 100.00% 96.92% Nynorsk 100.00% 84.81%
and Swedish 100.00% 99.33%..
Gerard, that reasoning is rather far-fetched. As you know, MediaWiki
contains many messages which regular users will never be exposed to. Even
with admin (and more) access, I rarely come across anything needing
translation. We would surely have complaints galore if missing interface
translations turned people away from the Danish language Wikipedia, and I've
never seen a complaint about that.
I have a hunch why there is/was a comparatively low number of Danish
MediaWiki message translations, but am not going to open old wounds. Old
wounds aside, another reason could be that people focus on other aspects;
since most message translators to Danish are from the Danish language
Wikipedia, they may not care much about messages/extensions not relevant in
Wikipedia, as they feel Wikipedia is their project, not MediaWiki or
Translatewiki.
What I think is the primary reason for the Danish Wikipedia being much
smaller than the "neighbouring" languages is that Danes generally are
internationally minded and pride themselves on being good at English -
people may simply prefer to use/edit Wikipedia in that language (even I did
that when first attracted to Wikipedia).
--
Regards, Kaare
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