On 23 May 2010 01:17, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)robla.net> wrote:
The problem as I understand it is this. Other wikis
(e.g. German, Polish)
are using FlaggedRevs as originally designed, with many different flags
corresponding to "sighted", "quality", "accuracy" and so
on. The proposed
implementation on English Wikipedia is binary: either an article is accepted
or its not. Many strings in the English version were changed to correspond
to this usage.
As I understand it, the software has three dimensions (accuracy, depth
and style) each with five levels. The fact that the enwiki
implementation only uses one of those dimensions and only two of the
levels shouldn't really change anything - the other 13 messages are
just unused.
In hindsight, the number of dimensions and number of levels shouldn't
have been hard-coded at all. There just have just been a two
dimensional array with the size and contents entirely customisable
(either through the message system or a special configuration page).
Unfortunately, it is too late for that kind of major change, so we'll
just have to ignore the rest of the messages. That shouldn't have any
impact on other projects, other than them not being able to rely on
English as a default. The message system in this case isn't just being
used to translate the interface, it is being used to customise it as
well, so defaults are pretty useless anyway.