[Wikipedia-l] Re: Day and month names

[Tim Starling]

Petr Kadlec wrote:
>>[...] moving everything into
>>special pages and the MediaWiki namespace, as we have been doing.
> 
> 
> Sure, but three points here:
> * People who downloads MediaWiki right now cannot use Czech for the
> interface, as their LanguageCs.php is just plain terrible.
> * As a special case, this is also true about other Wikimedia projects,
> e.g. Wiktionary. If you take a look at cs:Wiktionary: you can see
> English messages mixed with (bad) Czech.
> * Recently, we have repeatedly experienced switching between
> MediaWiki-based and LanguageCs.php-based messages on cs: Wikipedia.
> The LanguageCs.php-based messages are really terrible to look at.

That's why I've written a script to dump messages from the MediaWiki 
namespace into a file, and a script to import such files into new 
MediaWiki namespaces.

-- Tim Starling