[Wikipedia-l] Localization of interwiki bot

Minh Nguyen mxn at zoomtown.com
Tue May 29 09:28:26 UTC 2007


Andre Engels wrote:
> Recently I got a request to not use Russian but Ukrainian text for the
> summaries of the interwiki bot at the Ukrainian Wikipedia. This has
> now been done, but I can imagine there are more languages that would
> like to have their own language, or perhaps another choice of
> alternative language than the one I have made. If you want summaries
> in your own language on your Wikipedia for the bot, please send me a
> message with these summaries.
> 
> The following languages already have translations:
> af,ar,br,ca,cs,da,de,el,en,eo,es,eu,fa,fi,fr,he,hr,ia,is,it,ka,ksh,lt,mzn,nds,nds-nl,nl,
> nn,no,os,pl,pt,ro,ru,sk,sl,sr,sv,uk
> 
> Of the other languages, the language used for the summaries is:
> Arabic is used by ku,so
> German is used by als,bar,hsb,lb
> Esperanto is used by io,nov
> Spanish is used by an,ast,ay,ceb,gl,gn,lad,nah,pag,qu,tl,war
> Farsi is used by glk
> French is used by co,frp,ht,ie,kab,ln,lo,nrm,oc,vi,wa
> Hebrew is used by yi
> Croatian is used by bs,mk,sh
> Italian is used by eml,lij,lmo,nap,pms,rm,roa-tara,sc,scn,vec
> Lithuanian is used by bat-smg
> Dutch is used by fy,li,pap,vls,zea
> Norse (bokmal) is used by se
> Portuguese is used by tet
> Romanian is used by mo,roa-rup
> Russian is used by av,be,be-x-old,bxr,cv,got,hy,kk,ky,lbe,ru-sib,tk,tt,udm,xal
> 
> All languages not mentioned in the above use English.
> 
> If you want a localization in your language, please send me the
> replacements for the texts "robot", "Adding", "Removing" and
> "Modifying". If there is no local replacement needed, but you do think
> that you would do better with some other language, just state which
> (if any) language(s) should be preferred to English.

For Vietnamese (vi), the summaries should be:

robot:	robot
Adding:	Thêm
Removing:	Dời
Modifying:	Thay

Otherwise, English is preferred. Hehe, I never realized it was in French 
the whole time. I'm sending this to the whole list because it seems 
Andre's bot isn't the only one that uses French.

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