On Mit, 2002-12-04 at 17:31, Andre Engels wrote:

Recently, the messages to go from a discussion page to the corresponding page have been changed to get "view user page", "view meta page" etcetera. It's a nice change, but I now notice that the same has been done on the non-English Wikipedias too. And that's not nice. I'd rather have a reasonable text in Dutch than a better one in English on the Dutch Wikipedia. Could this change thus please be rolled back except for en and meta?

Hi,

I warned of this happening. But this would require us to start tracking individual changes for the different Wikipedias, which would slow down updates (which is especially bad as Brion seems to be the only one who has both the permissions and the will to do updates).

I think it's better to annoy people into providing translations. We're talking about 10 words or so. The problem is, people don't really know where to go to do so -- meta, intwiki-l, wikitech-l .. we need a prominent "Provide a missing translation" link on all Wikipedias.

If anyone sends new translations to the list, I'll be glad to apply them (I can only commit to CVS, though, not update the live code).

Regards,

Erik