Claudi Meneghin wrote:
Hello, we will soon need to customize namespaces at Lombard wikipedia; this is mainly due to three reasons (3 is most important):
- translating English names
You should create a language file, LanguageLmo.php, and a messages file, MessagesLmo.php. Then you will be able to translate the English namespaces, and also you will be able to translate other important things, including the messages (should not be translated locally in Wikipedia, as other wikis written in the same language won't include the translated messages).
- creating a 'portal' namespace
Just ask for that in Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org), giving the names of the portal namespace and its talk namespace, and the developers with shell access will create it.
- duplicating 'category' feature, to deal with the fragmentation of Lombard tongue into two major dialect groups.
It's just impossible.
As to 1) I guess that local Mediawiki should be enough;
Just right, but you should create one first.
as to 2) it seems to me yet obscure;
See above.
- cannot be dealt with by creating, say : 'category/west' and 'category/east', since the word 'Category' itself has two slightly different translations.
Thus an additional namespace is needed, like in case 2).
Case 2 is another case, as a custom namespace cannot be a category namespace whatsoever. You will have to find another way – creating another wiki for the second dialect, or ignoring one of them, or something like that.
I read this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Custom_namespaces Best regards,
Claudi