Brion:
So, don't be surprised if there is not speedy (or much of any) progress on getting submissions integrated. Sorry if it's annoying; that's the primary reason we set up the MediaWiki: namespace system.
However, that only works on single Wikis. If you want to change something on various wikis, the MediaWiki-namespace should be edited on all of them. If you want to change it for people using a different-language interface, even that does not work.
Could not some system be developed to enable people to submit these? As things are now, language files will only continue to drag further and further behind the rest of MediaWiki. Go on this way, and soon we might not need language files at all any more. Because the difference isn't that big between going through the MediaWiki namespace to translate half of it, and going through the MediaWiki namespace to translate all of it. Except perhaps that a half-English half-chosen-language interface on a third language is still better than an all-English one.
Andre Engels