Hi! On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Eugene Zelenko wrote: >> How about demanding from foundation to allocate some part of latest >> usability improvement grant/resources >> (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_to_become_more_user-friendly_for_new_volunteer_writers) >> to solve at some of Commons problems? > > We probably won't get to much Commons-specific stuff in there, but we'll > see what sub-projects come up.
Will be good idea to find old e-mail to wikitech-l from Brianna Laugher with Commons requirements since most of the requests still not implemented :-( For example, unsupported categories translation already used for Commons bad publicity on Russian Wikipedia. >> As for user language: see comments in similar request about user's >> gender (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13040), which >> also affect quality of MediaWiki localizations. > > Will social gender (often, but not always aligned with biological sex) > always track with grammatical gender? I hope so :-) > What are the cascading implications of user gender on localization > (adjective agreement in Romance languages, verb agreement in Semitic > languages) and what technical requirements would be imposed? Messages should be similar to GRAMMAR (for example GENDER). So sentences such as "User uploaded" could be more correctly translated as "Участник загрузил/Участница загрузила" on Russian or "Удзельнік загрузіў/Удзельніца загрузіла" on Belarusian. Same thing for Polish/Ukrainian and most likely for other Slavic languages. Gender settings could be also used in Babel extension and user boxes (currently uses parameters for this purpose). > - -- brion > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkk9X4EACgkQwRnhpk1wk44/AACgu3otzh0dqTkIZRi/W5VGbPfn > 9sIAmwbir/irI6iViQHWAZ9GgrSdVckM > =GE4z > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l Eugene. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
