On 15 December 2010 04:57, Casey Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Yannis, > > The discussion list for the localization of the MediaWiki software is > actually MediaWiki-i18n, so I've forwarded your e-mail to that list. > I've also included Guillaume Paumier and Neil Kandalgaonkar on this > e-mail, since they're the ones who made the Upload Wizard. :-) > > Thanks for reporting the issues you encountered! > > Casey > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Yannis A. <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:08 PM > Subject: [Translators-l] Dialects like "en-gb" on MediaWiki extensions > To: [email protected] > > For example, when I go over to the Upload Wizard for testing and > casual uploading, there's a banner at the top telling me that the > language was not found and that it “defaulted back to English”. > > Obviously, this would not be a problem with a speaker of British > English, but it could potentially be a problem in all sorts of > frameworks with someone who picked a language code like “arz”—Egyptian > Arabic, which would predictably default to English even though a > Standard Arabic version of the tutorial is available, which the > average arz speaker would definitely be more familiar with! > > The problem, therefore, is how MediaWiki handles dialects as separate > languages, and if it’s not fixed now, it could be a much bigger > problem as the usability initiative affects more and more components > of the website. Could some programmer fix this? I don't have the first > clue about how PHP works... > (sorry for the long post, by the way) >
MediaWiki already handles this without problems, just that the criterion is actually different from being a dialect. I assume that Upload Wizard is using mostly JavaScript, which needs its own localisation mechanism, which is not yet up to the same level as MediaWiki itself. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
