https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39267
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Bug #: 39267
Summary: Improve table design to solve i18n problem with
translated column headings in interface being wider
than column width
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Interface messages which are used as column headers are sometimes very short,
for example Mediawiki:Centralnotice-number-uses. The maximum length of this
message is 5% of the table width, which on some screens and with some browsers
I imagine is very short, maybe 6 or 7 letters? Because of this restriction,
there are going to be some messages which cannot be translated into some
languages, no matter how clever the translator is.
I have opened a separate bug for the message discussed above, bug 39266.
This bug is about the general design problem for interface tables, to enable
localisation of column headings.
Would it be possible to arrange it so that each column header has two messages
attached? The second message would be optional, only used when there is a
problem with the translated column header not fitting the available space. Then
the message in the column header would be a reference letter or number and the
second message would appear just above or just below the table, and start with
the reference letter or number and give the title of the column, like other
keys or legends, possibly also with a longer explanation of the column heading.
Alternatively, is it possible to get rid of the constraints on column width?
There was also a problem with the documentation for the message in the example
above because for a long time the column width was not documented at
translatewiki.net. So we translators had no idea that there was a maximum
column width to the message. We need better documentation on messages which are
column headings.
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