https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53897
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Bug ID: 53897
Summary: Message Lego breaks sentence structure in translations
of "You have new messages"
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Internationalization
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Currently, the OBOD (orange bar of doom) which shows up whenever a user's talk
page is modified, uses the following messages for the sentence:
MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers[1] and Mediawiki:newmessageslinkplural[2]
These messages essentially make it impossible to correctly translate
MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers into hindi (and by extension, probably
other grammatically similar north Indian languages).
The problem is caused by lack of plural support in
MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers for $1, ie the number of messages
received. The difference is basically equivalent to the english difference of
is/are, with sentence structure in MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers needed
to be modified based on the number of new messages, which isn't possible since
the message doesn't support plural over $1 (as far as I know).
In my opinion, it would be best that these messages be joined into one message,
seeing that neither is used elsewhere (the doc doesn't specify any other uses
for the messages).
[1]:http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers
[2]:http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Newmessagesdifflinkplural
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