As a followup to this thread: I'm going to make some minor modifications to the strings in the file, then check in what I've got. There may be specific instances where we'll need to figure out a better way of handling things, but after looking at this more, I think those instances may be more isolated than I first feared. We can probably handle them on a case-by-case basis as they are identified.

Thanks everyone for chiming in! Further thoughts on the subject should be directed to the comments here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623

...as well as into the comments for the eventual commit.

Rob

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm preparing a patch against FlaggedRevs which includes changes that Howie and I worked on in preparation for the launch of its deployment onto en.wikipedia.org . We started first by creating a style guide describing how the names should be presented in the UI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revi...

Then we sat down and did the string substitution. I've got some double checking left to do, but it's pretty much ready for deployment. I've put the patch here for now: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623

The original plan that Aaron and I hatched up was that I would check in the changes into trunk, and then he would fix. However, seeing the"FlaggedRevs

• Do you forget about other projects? " thread on foundation-l gave me

pause:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/thread.html#58577

We fully recognize that the strings we plan to use on en.wikipedia.orgprobably don't make sense in a lot of different contexts, even English language wikis. We really want to get this release out the door, but we don't want to leave a huge mess in the process. Is there an expedient but correct-enough approach to solving this problem?

Rob