[Wikipedia-l] Re: Day and month names
Tim Starling
ts4294967296 at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 2 13:51:33 UTC 2004
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
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