2006/7/9, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
There is indeed a project to maintain the localisation of the MediaWiki software. The great thing of this project is that it ensures that the messages are maintained when changes to the software happens. When things change, the messages are updated. It is my understanding that when the message was already updated locally it will not update the message.
I apologize for my message; I should have kept this internal tot the Dutch Wikipedia, since, as you write, it does not seem to be part of general policy to remove local translations. Rather, this was something of a single-person action. I am now therefore starting a procedure to de-admin this specific person on nl:.