Petr Kadlec wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:58:12 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Jan 11, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Why not have a bunch of subpages off each MediaWiki message page? One subpage per language. Default values would work as they do now.
I'm fairly certain it already works this way, so you can customize messages in each language on a given wiki if desired.
Wow! I have tried that (locally, of course) and it works! (e.g. MediaWiki:Something/en) But, obviously, the basic idea of someone manually copying some 1000 messages of a single translation to hundreds of Wikimedia sites (not to mention he/she would need sysop privileges on all wikis to do that) is useless.
A more sensible way would be in having a bot look at differences between system messages and the content of the PHP file. Some changes can be done automagically eg where a message says: "Wikipedia" it can be changes to SYSTEMNAME (or whatever the standard name is for the application). As far as I know, there is someone looking into this. Obviously there are several things that are to do with local policies like provide a link to enable a one click creation of a new article etc. These are the pitfalls of moving stuff back to the PHP file.
Thanks, GerardM