https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29357
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Bug #: 29357
Summary: CategoryTree should have built-in localizable support
for pretty Categorytree-member-num
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: i18n
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: CategoryTree
AssignedTo: brightb...@gmail.com
ReportedBy: amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
Classification: Unclassified
Many Wikipedias customized MediaWiki:Categorytree-member-num to show the number
of sub-categories, pages and files in the parentheses after the category name,
something like (3 C, 5 P, 1 F). Even for English this requires rather weird
parser function tricks to make the comma appear in the correct places, and
other languages need even stranger tricks - for example in Hebrew "one" comes
after the noun, but other numbers come before it, so i had to use #switch and
jump through even more hoops to get the comma appear correctly.
I checked the 20 largest Wikipedias and MediaWiki:Categorytree-member-num was
customized in all of them in much the same way. Since there apparently is
demand for this feature and the eventual functionality is quite the same
everywhere, it should be done this way:
1. There should be abbreviated localizable messages for C, P and F (category,
page, file), something like:
categorytree-category-count-short: {{PLURAL:$1|1 C|$1 C}}
categorytree-page-count-short: {{PLURAL:$1|1 P|$1 P}}
categorytree-file-count-short: {{PLURAL:$1|1 F|$1 F}}
2. Then after the category name all the non-zero values can be shown, joined by
a comma on the extension code level.
3. If all the values are zeroes, the word "empty" should be shown. (There
should be another localizable message for this.)
I didn't find any project that implemented this differently, but if there is
such a project, it can keep using Categorytree-member-num.
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