[Foundation-l] Requests for new languages streamlined

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On Jan 20, 2008 2:44 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
<pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:

> After extensive internal discussion, we have overhauled the
> localization requirements for all new wikis. This is very good news
> for most requests, since first wikis in a language now only need to
> translate the 496 most important interface messages, instead of all
> 1736 MediaWiki messages. Subsequent wikis in that language will need
> to translate all MediaWiki messages as well as extensions used by the
> Wikimedia Foundation, in order to provide a fully accessible editing
> environment for editors. Fortunately, we expect many of these messages
> to be translated over time by the first community, so that the second
> wiki's community will not actually have much left to translate.
>

Heh; from [[496 (number)]]:

"496 is most notable for being a perfect number, and one of the
earliest numbers to be recognized as such."

Bemusedly;

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]