Petr Kadlec wrote:
[...] moving everything into special pages and the MediaWiki namespace, as we have been doing.
Sure, but three points here:
- People who downloads MediaWiki right now cannot use Czech for the
interface, as their LanguageCs.php is just plain terrible.
- As a special case, this is also true about other Wikimedia projects,
e.g. Wiktionary. If you take a look at cs:Wiktionary: you can see English messages mixed with (bad) Czech.
- Recently, we have repeatedly experienced switching between
MediaWiki-based and LanguageCs.php-based messages on cs: Wikipedia. The LanguageCs.php-based messages are really terrible to look at.
That's why I've written a script to dump messages from the MediaWiki namespace into a file, and a script to import such files into new MediaWiki namespaces.
-- Tim Starling