Hoi, You have got it wrong. Two languages that DID not have language files in MediaWiki. They had a full Wikipedia and now these languages ARE supported in MediaWiki itself. To get there.. THEY did not have to do anything.. I have been asking developers for a favour, and I am grateful to Nikerabbit for the great work he did for me. Thanks, GerardM
On 3/27/07, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
2007/3/27, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
The result would be like it was before that an increasing number of projects are not supported with a language message file. There are two parts to this problem; MediaWiki is not only used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki is not
only
used by the Wikimedia Foundation. Creating a message file for a language is a job that does not take long. It needs doing.
But does it need doing before anything else is done? If people are happy to work in a strange interface, why not let them? And if they HAVE made an interface, as you say 2 languages have already been bullied by you into doing, then why not simply use that? All it takes is someone with SVN access to upload it, no?
Once a new project IS started, a message file HAS to be created. The
difference is that the moment when the message file is created is moved forward. The difference is that a new language has to be supported like any other language. It is not acceptable that new languages are getting a substandard service.
Apparently it is more acceptable to you to not give it any service at all....
Every language is to be treated equal; at this moment some languages are
more equal then others.
And I don't see how you are improving on this situation by not allowing the languages a place in Wikipedia at all.
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