On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
There's two internationalization changes in play here. First of all, month names get translated. This is something that you cannot change without modifying core (as far as I know).
Actually what am I talking about. The obvious solution to this is to just create the page MediaWiki:January on your wiki (and the other months), editing the month names to whatever you want.
MediaWiki will use whatever is on the page MediaWiki:January as the word for January, which allows you to modify the output without editing mediawiki source code.
I was going to do it that way but he said that he only wanted the signature timestamps to be in English and the rest of the site in Chinese, and I was concerned that maybe MediaWiki:January might be used for other purposes as well.