On 23 May 2010 01:17, Rob Lanphier <ro...@robla.net> wrote: > The problem as I understand it is this. Other wikis (e.g. German, Polish) > are using FlaggedRevs as originally designed, with many different flags > corresponding to "sighted", "quality", "accuracy" and so on. The proposed > implementation on English Wikipedia is binary: either an article is accepted > or its not. Many strings in the English version were changed to correspond > to this usage.
As I understand it, the software has three dimensions (accuracy, depth and style) each with five levels. The fact that the enwiki implementation only uses one of those dimensions and only two of the levels shouldn't really change anything - the other 13 messages are just unused. In hindsight, the number of dimensions and number of levels shouldn't have been hard-coded at all. There just have just been a two dimensional array with the size and contents entirely customisable (either through the message system or a special configuration page). Unfortunately, it is too late for that kind of major change, so we'll just have to ignore the rest of the messages. That shouldn't have any impact on other projects, other than them not being able to rely on English as a default. The message system in this case isn't just being used to translate the interface, it is being used to customise it as well, so defaults are pretty useless anyway. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
