Bug 42215[1] discussed this particular change, and I sought the advice of the mediawiki-i18n list about it (the consensus was a new message rather than fiddling with the semantics of the old one). But I don't think mediawiki-i18n list is involved in per-wiki message changes, I assume it's something an admin does.
If a wiki hasn't overridden the welcomecreation message then there's nothing to do except check to see if the default messages have been translated into its language (55 & 64 translations so far).[3]
Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
We can go look and see which wikis have written custom content, and inform them they need to migrate it to the new message.
I wrote a little script last night to check for the existence of the old and new messages, and it seems there are 205 wikis that did override welcomecreation (!!?), so ideally someone should find the [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki messages]] or [[Village pump (technical)]] page for those 205 wikis, or otherwise contact their admins. The list of wiki messages is at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:S_Page_%28WMF%29/welcomecreation_messages
Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yeah, if there's a required action item (you *have* to do this) for each wiki, no matter how brief the action, I think it's generally worth the blast.
My instructions are in the parent of the list of wikis, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:S_Page_%28WMF%29
I'm curious if any of those 205 wikis are doing inventive "Welcome aboard, now read a tutorial/say hi/fix a page/play in the sandbox" things. It's an area our team (Editor Engagement Experiments) cares about.
Thanks for your insights.
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42215 [2] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&message=Med... [3] Translatewiki suggests * the new "Welcome, $1!" title message welcomeuser has been translated into 64 languages[4] * the new "Your account has been created. \ Do not forget to change your <preferences>" has been translated into 55 languages[5].
[4] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslations&message=W... [5] https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslations&message=W...
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