Hi!
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Eugene Zelenko wrote:
How about demanding from foundation to allocate some part of latest usability improvement grant/resources (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_...) to solve at some of Commons problems?
We probably won't get to much Commons-specific stuff in there, but we'll see what sub-projects come up.
Will be good idea to find old e-mail to wikitech-l from Brianna Laugher with Commons requirements since most of the requests still not implemented :-(
For example, unsupported categories translation already used for Commons bad publicity on Russian Wikipedia.
As for user language: see comments in similar request about user's gender (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13040), which also affect quality of MediaWiki localizations.
Will social gender (often, but not always aligned with biological sex) always track with grammatical gender?
I hope so :-)
What are the cascading implications of user gender on localization (adjective agreement in Romance languages, verb agreement in Semitic languages) and what technical requirements would be imposed?
Messages should be similar to GRAMMAR (for example GENDER). So sentences such as "User uploaded" could be more correctly translated as "Участник загрузил/Участница загрузила" on Russian or "Удзельнік загрузіў/Удзельніца загрузіла" on Belarusian. Same thing for Polish/Ukrainian and most likely for other Slavic languages.
Gender settings could be also used in Babel extension and user boxes (currently uses parameters for this purpose).
- -- brion
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