[Wikipedia-l] os.wikipedia.org (Cyrillic only will do)

[Mark Williamson]

Do you not realise that because of this, these changes will not be
viewable to people trying to use the Russian interface on other
Wikipedias? For the single reason that you people don't update the
language files much at all (obviously it IS your choice, but it's not
like anybody else has the ability), some people are deprived entirely
of the function of multilingual interface capability, and some people
are deprived ENTIRELY of interface capabilities in their language (the
entire Panjabi language file has been translated, but there are
currently no sysops who can commit them to the MediaWiki namespace.)

Mark

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:46:58 -0800, Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Alexander Sigachov wrote:
> | By the way, Russian language file at
> | http://meta.wikipedia.org/LanguageRu.php recently was updated to rev.
> | 1.423 of Language.php
> |
> | But in CVS we can not update it MORE THEN YEAR!!!
> 
> Updating the language files is a big pain in the butt. The vast majority
> of submitted updates have not been valid PHP source and do not even
> _compile_ as provided, and further are generally do not correctly take
> account of differences between the open release and development
> branches. Very frequently, submitted language files contain outright
> incorrect code such as cut-and-pastes of code from Language.php which
> should not be duplicated in child classes.
> 
> Checking for validity, fixing the errors, testing basic functioning,
> glancing through to make sure there's not a security hole slipped in or
> other oddities takes time and isn't particularly fun. 'Language files'
> written in pages on meta are particularly likely to be ignored due to
> this past history, and will probably *never* be imported into the code
> base if simply left up there.
> 
> So, don't be surprised if there is not speedy (or much of any) progress
> on getting submissions integrated. Sorry if it's annoying; that's the
> primary reason we set up the MediaWiki: namespace system.
> 
> Updates to any file in MediaWiki should be submitted as a unified diff
> against the files in CVS (cvs diff -u) FOR EACH AFFECTED BRANCH (the
> REL1_4 release branch is not the same as the current development work in
> HEAD), posted as a file attachment to a bug report in Bugzilla.
> Assurances that it's been tested are helpful.
> 
> - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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