2011/4/25 Bináris <[email protected]>

> Good morning!
>
> I collected month names at
>
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Bin%C3%A1ris/Tartalomjegyz%C3%A9kbot/H%C3%B3napok_%E2%80%93_Months
> as shown in archivebot.py. I need it for writing and testing the 
> TOCbot<http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Bin%C3%A1ris/TOCbot>,
> which has to recognize short and long month names in archive name patterns.
> The relevant part of my code is:
> *    text += '<br>'.join([Site.mediawiki_message(MonthsS[i]) for i in
> range(12)]) + '\n|'
>     text += '<br>'.join([Site.mediawiki_message(MonthsL[i]) for i in
> range(12)])
> *for each Site in site.validLanguageLinks().
>
> If there is any Dutch here, please check the *nl* row, because I saw that
> archivebot.py handles it in a specific way that I don't understand, and
> cannot check because of different locale.
>
> Now, some rows show irregular behavior which I don't understand.
>
>    1. In rows *ne* and *ti* a part of the short names seems to be native,
>    and some of the short names English. (Apr, Oct in *ne* and from Jul to
>    Dec in *ti*.) Is that perhaps a MediaWiki bug?
>
> This is likely because the translators over at translatewiki.net haven't
got to those names yet, and MediaWiki therefore doesn't have a translation
for it yet. When translating the messages are shown alphabeticaly (AFAIR),
and since the month names don't have a prefix they are scattered all over
the place.

>
>    1.
>    2. In the last row, *zu*, all the long names have a 'u' at the
>    beginning, just as in Python Unicode strings. Is that correct or some
>    misbehaviour?
>
>  That is correct. u- is their noun class, probably class 11 in the Bantu
class system (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class#Bantu_languages).

>
>    1. In the row *ba* there are two short names (ғин, май) that don't fit
>    in the line. Or is that the other ten? They are different and lower case,
>    while the others upper case and identical to the long name. Is that a bug 
> or
>    a feature? If bug, is it in MediaWiki?
>
>
> Don't know about this one.

>
>    1.
>    2. There are two rows, *ba* and *ky*, where there are alternative
>    versions in parenthesis, the basic version being *almost* identical to
>    Russian. Does it mean that any of the given versions may appear in that 
> wiki
>    as a month name?
>
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> Bináris
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