Hoi,
Nikerabit has done a lot of great work on BetaWiki. We want to make his
functionality part of the Incubator and have as much as possible all
translations done there. Obviously there are some messages that are specific
to a particular wiki as they have policy or local kinds of information on
them but we really want one place where all messages are managed.
The patches that Nikerabit created are waiting for someone to go over and
integrate it into MediaWiki.
Many of the issues you raise seem to be ones that have been dealt with by
Nikerabit. PLEASE, please integrate the two efforts and make this something
we can be proud of,
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7/26/07, Daniel Arnold <arnomane(a)gmx.de> wrote:
On Thursday 26 July 2007 01:57:23 jidanni(a)jidanni.org wrote:
Let's find all the empty help etc. page links
that come with
MediaWiki.
This problem has been already adressed by me and others and partly solved
in
the past but solving it entirely is a quite time consuming task.
I did adress this problem with various efforts:
* Plain MediaWiki (without extensions) only allows this list of page
links:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Page_customizat…
This is already a big reduction compared to the state before.
* Any MediaWiki system message should link other (non-special) pages only
if
really needed.
*
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/029298.html
*
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8846 but more languages
need
to be done. There are even horrible failures like linking lokalised
namespace
names instead of the canonical ones.
Special:Wantedpages doesn't tell the whole
story. There are tons of
empty help page links that the user will stumble into. I wish to track
them down and fill them in before users stumble into them.
Missing pages linked by MediaWiki messages that are only transcluded from
the
system messages into the MediaWiki namespace do not show up in
Special:Wantedpages.
languages/messages/Messages*.php in the section
that start with
"# All link text and link target definitions of links"
Wait, maybe instead of redirecting them, I just should edit
Mediawiki:edithelppage etc. to point to my single Project:Help.
This was introduced by me but still needs to be applied to all language
files.
Anyway, first I must assemble a list of which
ones are actually
missing. I suppose I must probe their URLs.
No, I don't want to really fill in every different helpful help page,
but instead just link them to my monolithic single help page.
That's why thee are link definition pages. You don't need to touch every
single message but just a couple of link definition pages if the
Messages*.php file is correct.
Anyways I really could need any helping hand in order to apply this to all
remaining message files.
Cheers, Arnomane
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