For each new MediaWiki version, there is casual shifting back and forth of what the translations of the names for the pages like the community portal page, the disclaimers page, the current events page, etc. are.
Each upgrade we have to repair our wikis to connect the previous page name back up to its latest and greatest translation.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:29 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
For each new MediaWiki version, there is casual shifting back and forth of what the translations of the names for the pages like the community portal page, the disclaimers page, the current events page, etc. are.
Each upgrade we have to repair our wikis to connect the previous page name back up to its latest and greatest translation.
Complain to the maintainers of the language you use. Here is probably not the best place.
S> Complain to the maintainers of the language you use. Here is probably S> not the best place.
I'm sure it happens in many languages. The translators are probably blissfully unaware of the ever increasing number of #REDIRECTs needed to track their whims.
Moral of story: avoid ever using page names that appear at installation begging to be filled in with content (Current Events, etc.) And make your own sidebar with your own page names from day one.
Those are the default names; once you create the pages, it would be a good idea to stop using the default page names. See < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar > for details on doing that.
As a summary, go to [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]], and then create pages for the words that appear in it. For example, where it says "currentevents-url|currentevents", creates [[MediaWiki:Currentevents-url]] and [[MediaWiki:Currentevents]] with the link target and title you want.
The translations are provided by volunteers on < http://translatewiki.net/ >, and they're likely not on this mailing list at all.
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