https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28617

--- Comment #1 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> 
2011-04-22 17:31:26 UTC ---
More detailed analysis:

$1 can be a single user or a list of users.
- Single case: Why supply $6, when we have $1 already and they are equal?
- List case: GENDER needs to be applied to each list element. For example,
  if we had three users in the list:
  - Petra (feminine)
  - Pitter (masculine)
  - P.T. (gender unknown)
  then $1, translated, had to be:
  Et Petra, dä Pitter, un dä Metmaacher P.T.
  (Note the initial capital!)

How to distinguish between single user and list of users?
It's generally impossible.
- For the languages having a PLURAL branch of "n==1", you can (mis)use PLURAL
for the purpose.
- For the rest of the languages, you are at a loss.
In wikis having the parser functions extension installed, you could make local
versions of the messages using parser functions, but that is not a general
solution.

$3 looks like another user name or list. GENDER needs to be used on $3 or each
user in $3 as well, in the same way as above.

All in all, this seems not really to work.

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