Not that i have objections against this change, but
changes to the
software/userinterfase of the Wikipedias should be announced formaly and
well in advance.
Somthing like this;
Give 3 weeks notice.
This is way too long. I don't have time to track each individual patch
over three weeks, especially since patches become obsolete quite quickly
as other changes are committed. Besides, intwiki-l is not for feature
discussion (see the list description). wikitech-l is, and if feature
discussion concerns wikipedia policies, it should be copied/moved to
wikipedia-l.
Notice that the above policy is not used by anyone else either, so I don't
even see why you bring it up. Members of the international Wikipedias that
want to take part in feature discussions should subscribe to wikitech-l
and/or wikipedia-l, if we spread this stuff over three lists, we'll never
get anything done.
What I can agree on is to send strings that need to be translated to
intwiki-l before committing a change, and to wait a few days for
translations to come in, then to commit the change together with the
translations. But if not all translations come in within a reasonable
amount of time, they will have to be added later, meaning that the user
interface will have some English in it until the translations are
submitted. If you check some of the international Wikipedias, you will
notice that this is the case for quite a few of them, for features with
which I had nothing to do.
Regards,
Erik