On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's two internationalization changes in play here. First of all,
month names get translated. This is something that you cannot change
without modifying core (as far as I know).
Actually what am I talking about. The obvious solution to this is to just
create the page MediaWiki:January on your wiki (and the other months),
editing the month names to whatever you want.
MediaWiki will use whatever is on the page MediaWiki:January as the word
for January, which allows you to modify the output without editing
mediawiki source code.
I was going to do it that way but he said that he only wanted the signature
timestamps to be in English and the rest of the site in Chinese, and I was
concerned that maybe MediaWiki:January might be used for other purposes as
well.