On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima<heldergeov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anybody knows why the link > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/autoreviewer > makes the target page to have the box on the right filled with > "Autoreviewers" and shows only the users in that group, while using a > translated name at pt.wikipedia, like > http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Lista_de_utilizadores/Robôs<http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Lista_de_utilizadores/Rob%C3%B4s> > doesn't do the same thing? (in this example, we get a list of all users, > starting from "Robôs") > > Is it possible to use a translated name in the link for this kind of special > page? (lists of users in a group)
The parameter in the URL currently must be an exact match for the name of the group. Group names are normally short, lowercase, ASCII, alphabetic English names that are consistent across wikis. You can think of them like numbers, as if the URL were /w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&groupid=14 or something; they're meant to be opaque identifiers for use by system administrators, not user-visible strings. Do we expose group names anywhere other than URLs and message names? Message names aren't really an issue, since those are entirely English anyway. I think it's not worth the effort of localizing if they only appear in URLs. We already have some English in the http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/ part of the URL anyway, and English in all the GET parameter names, and so on. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
