https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47841
--- Comment #12 from Seb35 <seb35wikipe...@gmail.com> --- As a translator, I aggree with Siebrand single words should not be used in complete sentences. But as discussed on design-l recently (see its archives around beginning of December 2013), these words can be useful in the context the word is used alone, as in the mobile watchlist (see the Jon’s capture http://imgur.com/Jiv0XPJ). I searched where the message nstab-main and affiliates are used, and it appears they are used only for the tabs (Title.php and SkinTemplate.php -- and FakeTitle.php). So these files could be adapted to be added the specific number for PLURAL use (1 in this case) and the message could then be used in a plural context. For information, some languages have very complicated rules for plural, see e.g. [[w:Grammatical number]] and [[w:Plural]]. For the lowercase/uppercase issue, I don’t see problems in using the {{lc:}} parser function, apart perhaps the context for some messages: the linguistic context must be the user interface language and not the content language of the wiki; but I guess this is the case in most interface messages. It must be noted that the current use of these messages in SkinTemplate.php has a fallback system, particularly for the talk tab: this can be namespace-specific or not (in the latter case MediaWiki:Talk is used). I am pretty opposed to distinguish the main namespace of the others since, as pointed in the discussion, some wikis could have many main namespaces. This is a specific case, but I find the best solution is to let the people use the namespace name they want in the messages and extensions (hence the use of the nstab messages), and the wikis which have many content namespaces have to adapt some messages in the way they want. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
