https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18793
--- Comment #3 from stevertigo <[email protected]> 2009-05-14 07:31:55 UTC --- Namespace semantics on the ~4M-article-wiki may seem far less important than those objections that raise safewords like "code" or else the plight of ~138 MB MediaWiki installs and noob admins that can't even run a SQL patch, but those could be forgetting that its not about the code here: It's about the content. "Truckloads of links" - Any way to query how many? Are these the result of a bad coding practice wherein the code effects the content and becomes entangled with the content? Couldn't a reasonably simple SQL patch change the ubiquitous English word "Project" to something more code-cool like "P40J3C7." Which, for code-not-content purposes would work quite well, wouldn't it? "Breaks backwards compatibility" - This might be a bit overboard. In any case, AIUI, MediaWiki's first project is Wikipedia. En.wiki happens to be the dominant one, which more has truckloads of sub-Projects to consider, each of which has more content value than the hassles associated with a one-and-a-half-hour code fix. BTW, does this BUG not affect other language wikis, or does it affect just the English one? If the token in the code is the same untranslated English word "Project," other languages could still use their respective direct/near-direct translations: Projekti, 計劃, 计划, 方案, المشروع, projekt, projekt, projekt, projekto, suunnitelma, projet, Projekt, פרויקט , מיזם, terv, proyek, progetto, プロジェクト, 計画, けいかく, 계획, پرۆژه, projek, proġett, prosjekt, projekt, projeto, proiect, план, проект, proyecto, projekt, proje, prosiect... Any of which alternate tokens would be, at least for the purposes of my argument, better to use than the English/Dutch spelling. -Steven -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
