Believe it or not, I think this could be the type of messages which would gain to be announced on wikipedia itself.
Just as a general message, send through an automated system, JUST when the change is made.
(ant running away)
Timwi wrote:
Hi,
hopefully this notice will prevent complaints about this change.
Someone just checked in a software change that will allow sysops to customise the names of months and weekdays via pages in the MediaWiki namespace, just like most other things in the user interface. When this change goes live on the site, you will see the month and weekdays names change into English (I believe). Please do not panic when that happens.
Please create pages called [[MediaWiki:January]] etc. and [[MediaWiki:Sunday]] etc. in your local Wikipedia and translate the months/weekdays names appropriately.
In case you're not sure about the correct spellings, I have included them below.
Greetings, Timwi
Weekday names: [[MediaWiki:Sunday]] [[MediaWiki:Monday]] [[MediaWiki:Tuesday]] [[MediaWiki:Wednesday]] [[MediaWiki:Thursday]] [[MediaWiki:Friday]] [[MediaWiki:Saturday]]
Month names: [[MediaWiki:January]] [[MediaWiki:February]] [[MediaWiki:March]] [[MediaWiki:April]] [[MediaWiki:May]] [[MediaWiki:June]] [[MediaWiki:July]] [[MediaWiki:August]] [[MediaWiki:September]] [[MediaWiki:October]] [[MediaWiki:November]] [[MediaWiki:December]]
Abbreviated month names: [[MediaWiki:Jan]] [[MediaWiki:Feb]] [[MediaWiki:Mar]] [[MediaWiki:Apr]] [[MediaWiki:May]] [[MediaWiki:Jun]] [[MediaWiki:Jul]] [[MediaWiki:Aug]] [[MediaWiki:Sep]] [[MediaWiki:Oct]] [[MediaWiki:Nov]] [[MediaWiki:Dec]]