https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70483
Bug ID: 70483
Summary: Re-think the colon after the username in Flow replies
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: i18n
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Flow
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
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When replying to a Flow message, the software automatically inserts a linked
username and a colon, like this:
[[User:Amire80|Amire80]]:
The colon may be confusing and wrongly used. Several reasons for that:
* Some languages, most notably French, insert a space before the colon.
* Some languages don't use the colon character at all.
* In many languages, including English itself, a name followed by a colon
indicates direct speech by the person whose name appears before the colon. This
is used in plays, dialog transcriptions, and so on. This is the opposite of the
intention here.
In some languages, including English, a better option would be to use a comma.
The simplest solution is probably to create an optional message and let every
language customize it accordingly.
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