https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24046
Summary: Vector editwarning is only partially localizable and
sometimes appears multilingual
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Vector Skin
AssignedTo: tpars...@wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: theevilipaddr...@hotmail.de
Per the discussion on
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AAF#Ansprache_im_.E2.80.9EAchtung.2C_deine_Bearbeitung_geht_evtl._verloren.E2.80.9C-Feld
(in German), the edit warning produced by the Vector skin, can only be
partially translated via the message [[MediaWiki:Vector-editwarning-warning]].
The rest comes from somewhere else, I assume from the standard messages of
one's browser.
This, however, has disadvantages. The first one is that the message then can't
be changed to the common conventions of the localizations. For example, in
German, they use a formal form, whereas it's a long-time convention to use the
unformal form. This then leads to inconsistencies. I'm sure there are also
other languages where localization standards can't be met due to this. The
second problem is that then sometimes multilingual messages appear. If I edit
the English Wikipedia with my German browser and then leave the edit window
with unsaved changes, then there's first a German warning, then an English one,
and then again a German one. This is confusing and not really good. It should
be completely in the wgContentLanguage of the wiki. The third thing is that
wikis then can't completely customize this message if they want to.
Thus, I think that all three parts of this message should be translateable over
translatewiki, as with all the other messages, too.
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