On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:44:42AM +0100, Arwel Parry wrote:
In message 8b722b80040720143078f3360e@mail.gmail.com, Angela_ beesley@gmail.com writes
If any of the other wikis would like username blocking enabled, they can request it at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-development_tasks_for_developers
Angela.
Oh great, another Meta page that most people won't know exists! :(
Please excuse my cynicism, Angela, but I am in despair to see that the top two links off that page are [[Meta:Language files to be updated]] and [[Meta:Requests for languageXX.php update ]], when I have in the last week or so posted both here and on Wiki-en asking whether anybody actually monitors those pages and perhaps even occasionally actions requests on those particular pages since there are currently outstanding update requests going back many months, and only got a reply saying that the MediaWiki strings have largely superseded the language files. Yes, I KNOW that, but there are still things which can only be tweaked using the language file.
I've had a request for an update to LanguageCy.php for over two weeks now, because we've got a mis-spelling in the name for "July".
Hi Arwel,
the problem with the LanguageXX.php pages on meta is that they are maintained by people who act in good faith, but are not involved in the development processes. LanguageCy.php for example is based on revision 1.12. That is a revision from the current "development" branch, not from the "stable" branch wikipedia.org is based on. If I apply that file to the site, lots of things would be broken. Now I have to try to get the diffs from the file to find out what has changed. History is only of limited help since it contains both your changes to the content and your changes caused by the script changes in CVS.
Regards,
JeLuF