As a followup to this thread: I'm going to make some minor modifications to
the strings in the file, then check in what I've got. There may be specific
instances where we'll need to figure out a better way of handling things,
but after looking at this more, I think those instances may be more isolated
than I first feared. We can probably handle them on a case-by-case basis as
they are identified.
Thanks everyone for chiming in! Further thoughts on the subject should be
directed to the comments here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623
...as well as into the comments for the eventual commit.
Rob
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm preparing a patch against FlaggedRevs which includes changes that Howie
and I worked on in preparation for the launch of its deployment onto
en.wikipedia.org . We started first by creating a style guide describing
how the names should be presented in the UI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_rev…
Then we sat down and did the string substitution. I've got some double
checking left to do, but it's pretty much ready for deployment. I've put
the patch here for now:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623
The original plan that Aaron and I hatched up was that I would check in the
changes into trunk, and then he would fix. However, seeing the"FlaggedRevs
- Do you forget about other projects? " thread on foundation-l gave me
pause:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/thread.html#58577
We fully recognize that the strings we plan to use on en.wikipedia.orgprobably don't
make sense in a lot of different contexts, even English
language wikis. We really want to get this release out the door, but we
don't want to leave a huge mess in the process. Is there an expedient but
correct-enough approach to solving this problem?
Rob