On Jan 11, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
It was my hope that the MediaWiki namespace would largely do away with the need to create language files, however that need remained and recent developments (the growth in multi-language projects and the ability for users to select the interface language) have exacerbated our dependence on them.
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. The more general issue, though, is updating those defaults.
When we basically only had one Wikipedia wiki per language, editing the messages in that wiki was generally sufficient, but now we have several wikis per language and _any_ of our wikis may be optionally displayed in _any_ language.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)