Hoi,
How many Wikipedias exist .... 280+ ... The English Wikipedia may be the
biggest and baddest but you cannot infer from this that its message is the
same message in use everywhere.
When you want to change a default message, the message is localised for
general consumption on translatewiki.net. When local policy means that the
message needs a further adaptation it is done on the local Wiki. If
anything, the English Wikipedia and its community is not involved in the
business of localisation for general use and consequenly they are unlikely
to be the best source for any message that is to be of global use.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 December 2012 04:09, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> wrote:
> At the least, I think we should post at the closest equivalent to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MediaWiki_messages for each wiki.
> Typically, this might be the local version of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical) or just
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump (depending how big the
> wiki is). A bot should be able to deliver this message to all the pages,
> once the list is in place.
>
> Ideally, we'll give them enough time to prepare, and provide a link for
> central feedback (e.g. a bugzilla).
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Recently, in order to make a rather small user interface change (see bug
> > #42215), our team needed to replace MediaWiki:Welcomecreation with a new
> > message, MediaWiki:Welcomecreation-msg.
> >
> > The new message contains all of the things MediaWiki normally inserts in
> > that message, and simply changes the header text. Simple enough.
> >
> > My question here is... Is there a best practice for advertising changes
> to
> > MediaWiki messages like these?
> >
> > This message, which is given to users once after they register, is
> > sometimes customized. We can go look and see which wikis have written
> > custom content, and inform them they need to migrate it to the new
> message.
> > But I was wondering if others have encountered this problem, and how they
> > dealt with it.
> >
> > --
> > Steven Walling
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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