As a followup to this thread: I'm going to make some minor modifications to the strings in the file, then check in what I've got. There may be specific instances where we'll need to figure out a better way of handling things, but after looking at this more, I think those instances may be more isolated than I first feared. We can probably handle them on a case-by-case basis as they are identified.
Thanks everyone for chiming in! Further thoughts on the subject should be directed to the comments here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623 ...as well as into the comments for the eventual commit. Rob On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm preparing a patch against FlaggedRevs which includes changes that Howie > and I worked on in preparation for the launch of its deployment onto > en.wikipedia.org . We started first by creating a style guide describing > how the names should be presented in the UI: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flagged_protection_and_patrolled_revisions/Terminology > > Then we sat down and did the string substitution. I've got some double > checking left to do, but it's pretty much ready for deployment. I've put > the patch here for now: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23623 > > The original plan that Aaron and I hatched up was that I would check in the > changes into trunk, and then he would fix. However, seeing the"FlaggedRevs > - Do you forget about other projects? " thread on foundation-l gave me > pause: > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/thread.html#58577 > > We fully recognize that the strings we plan to use on > en.wikipedia.orgprobably don't make sense in a lot of different contexts, > even English > language wikis. We really want to get this release out the door, but we > don't want to leave a huge mess in the process. Is there an expedient but > correct-enough approach to solving this problem? > > Rob > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
