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? > > -- > Bináris > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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