On the Dutch Wikipedia I currently have a question from another site using Mediawiki software. They would like to work in Dutch, but languageNl.php is only partly translated. They could copy everything into the MediaWiki namespace, but that is an awful lot of work.
Because of that, my question: * Is there a simpler way to copy the MediaWiki namespace between projects, or is it being worked on? * Is there a simpler way to update language files, or is it being worked on?
Of course this would be useful for Wikimedia too - the first could be used for translations between various projects, the second for people who use a different language interface.
Andre Engels
- Is there a simpler way to copy the MediaWiki namespace between
projects, or is it being worked on?
I believe you can use maintenance\dumpMessages.php and rebuildMessages.php. Of course, that requires shell access to the machines where the wiki runs. (But you can get the contents of the Wikipedia's MediaWiki: namespace from a database dump.)
- Is there a simpler way to update language files, or is it being worked on?
Simpler than what? There are some problems with accepting updated LanguageXx.php files into MediaWiki distribution, but there have been some progress recently (check archive). If you mean "simpler than writing/modifying PHP code", than the answer is no, AFAIK.
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