Hi everyone,

During the 1.19 cycle, there were some namespace names that were changed and then reverted shortly before deployment. We're about to deploy 1.20wmf1 to a lot of international wikis on Wednesday of next week, and I'm a little worried that we may need to do a speedy revert again.

Two concerns: 1. Do the new namespace names have community consensus? What I've heard though the grapevine is that yes, there has been an effort to get consensus, but confirmation of that would be nice. 2. For each namespace that was changed, was there a corresponding alias set up? Rumor has it that there might be a few cases where that isn't the case.

I did a quick grep for recent changes to NS_* messages in hopes of finding a few examples of recent changes. Below is a list of changes in 2012 to NS_ messages.

We should get this sorted out before we push on Wednesday.

Thanks Rob

23ea50c3 (Antoine Musso 2012-02-15 15:29:22 +0000 47) NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Përdoruesi', 'female' => 'Përdoruesja' ), 23ea50c3 (Antoine Musso 2012-02-15 15:29:22 +0000 48) NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Përdoruesi_diskutim', 'female' => 'Përdoruesja_diskutim' ), dde3821a (Niklas Laxström 2012-03-28 13:41:19 +0000 56) NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Suradnik', 'female' => 'Suradnica' ), dde3821a (Niklas Laxström 2012-03-28 13:41:19 +0000 57) NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Razgovor_sa_suradnikom', 'female' => 'Razgovor_sa_suradnicom' ), b3664209 (Translation updater bot 2012-04-06 15:34:29 +0000 26) NS_MEDIA => 'Медиум', b3664209 (Translation updater bot 2012-04-06 15:34:29 +0000 45) 'Медија' => NS_MEDIA, b3664209 (Translation updater bot 2012-04-06 15:34:29 +0000 46) 'Специјални' => NS_SPECIAL, b3664209 (Translation updater bot 2012-04-06 15:34:29 +0000 47) 'Слика' => NS_FILE, 80f29d01 ( Reedy 2012-04-07 21:03:44 +0100 47) 'Imagem' => NS_FILE, 3bc64a9f (Translation updater bot 2012-04-03 21:11:13 +0000 440)'articlepage' => "'Content page' is used for NS_MAIN and any other non-standard namespace and this message is only used in skins Nostalgia, Cologneblue and Standard in the bottomLinks part. 659f18cc (Tim Starling 2012-01-02 22:54:57 +0000 108) NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Участник', 'female' => 'Участница' ), 659f18cc (Tim Starling 2012-01-02 22:54:57 +0000 109) NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Обсуждение_участника', 'female' => 'Обсуждение_участницы' ), 764b3492 (Niklas Laxström 2012-02-13 19:36:49 +0000 61) NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Përdoruesi', 'female' => 'Përdoruesja' ), 764b3492 (Niklas Laxström 2012-02-13 19:36:49 +0000 62) NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Përdoruesi_diskutim', 'female' => 'Përdoruesja_diskutim' ), f0ecaf0a (Niklas Laxström 2012-04-10 16:36:41 +0000 38) NS_FILE => 'Датотека', f0ecaf0a (Niklas Laxström 2012-04-10 16:36:41 +0000 39) NS_FILE_TALK => 'Разговор_о_датотеци', f0ecaf0a (Niklas Laxström 2012-04-10 16:36:41 +0000 40) NS_MEDIAWIKI => 'Медијавики', f0ecaf0a (Niklas Laxström 2012-04-10 16:36:41 +0000 41) NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => 'Разговор_о_Медијавикију',