"Amire80" changed the status of MediaWiki.r113076 to "fixme" and commented it. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/113076#c31870
Old Status: new New Status: fixme Commit summary for MediaWiki.r113076: bug 34882 - rewording - show this post to unhide this post (and derivatives) Amire80's comment: Short summary: Please document all the messages with "hide" and "oversight" in them, and if possible, avoid using "unoversight" entirely. This confuses things completely. There's hide and there's oversight, and also unhide and unoversight. Translators in translatewiki.net complained repeatedly about this - they have no idea how to translate this. It may be easy to coin English words by sticking un- to them, but it's not as easy in other languages. Furthermore, if "oversight" means "hide", then what does "hide" mean? And even before we get to translation, "unoversight" is not an English word at all: it doesn't appear in any dictionary and if you Google it, you will hardly find any results not related to MediaWiki. To begin with, "Oversight" is used very strangely in the MediaWiki world - in the dictionaries i checked, it's not even a verb, and its actual technical meaning is quite far from its English meaning, "watchful care". This means that "unoversight" is second-generation MediaWiki lingo. So even English-speaking users may find this puzzling (although i admit that it's curious for the linguist in me). And by the way, "unhide" also doesn't appear in the English dictionaries i checked. Please document all the messages with "hide" and "oversight" in them, and if possible, avoid using "unoversight" entirely. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
