https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60867
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Bug ID: 60867
Summary: The Wikibase-time-precision-* messages have unclear
documentation
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
Assignee: wikidata-b...@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
CC: gerard.meijs...@gmail.com,
wikidata-b...@lists.wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
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The wikibase-time-precision-* messages have unclear context and documentation.
"in $1 billion years" can be used in the phrases "$1 billion years *from now*",
"*once* in $1 billion years", "in units of $1 billion years", etc. The current
documentation doesn't make it clear what is the required sense. The qqq strings
must be updated to reflect this.
Furthermore, I suspect that the full stop is not needed in English in "$1.
millennium" and "$1. century". If I'm not mistaken, a full stop is needed after
numbers in some languages in some cases, but it's not needed in English. I
might be wrong in my suspicion, but in any case this must be clarified in qqq.
Finally, the message Wikibase-time-precision-century is extremely unclear. Is
"$1s" really a good string for English?
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