On 8/17/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/08/05, Dori slowpoke@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is how do you distribute the translations with MediaWiki? I guess the various MediaWiki: namespace for each language could be exported.
Yes, the bulk of the PHP file can be generated using the "&ot=php" parameter to Special:Allmessages (e.g. http://eu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&ot=php) and relatively minor changes can be posted as patch attachments at bugzilla. The up-to-date PHP files are then distributed with the software and used in updating the messages on existing wikis (although I'm less clear about how this last part is handled).
Well, minor changes can be done by hand, the problem is when there are many changes. Can someone create a patch for this: http://sq.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&ot=php ? I know the translation I did for LanguageSq.php is way older than what's on w:sq now, but I doubt it would be all that easy to write a patch (but would love to be proved wrong).
If you have the LanguageXx.php I imagine you can just rebuilt the messages.
Dori