On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 09:34:42PM +0100, Arwel Parry wrote:
In message cdbks0$qar$1@sea.gmane.org, Timwi timwi@gmx.net writes
Someone just checked in a software change that will allow sysops to customise the names of months and weekdays via pages in the MediaWiki namespace, just like most other things in the user interface. When this change goes live on the site, you will see the month and weekdays names change into English (I believe). Please do not panic when that happens.
Please create pages called [[MediaWiki:January]] etc. and [[MediaWiki:Sunday]] etc. in your local Wikipedia and translate the months/weekdays names appropriately.
Will it screw things up if we create these in advance of your software change?
Probably not, but there is no need in creating them in advance as they are automatically taken from the current translation.
While I'm on the subject of local language versions, I posted a query to Wikitech-l last week about who, if anyone, monitors and applies requested changes to the LanguageXX.php files, requested via [[meta:Requests for languageXX.php update]] and [[meta:Language files to be updated]] and got no reply at all --- there are requests on there that go back to last March and there is no indication that any of them have been actioned.
[[meta:Requests for languageXX.php update]] is rather dead, it is from the time before users were able to customize messages using MediaWiki:...
Regards,
JeLuF