[Wikipedia-l] Re: Attention all sysops on non-English Wikipedias

Sat Jul 17 17:36:13 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> hopefully this notice will prevent complaints about this change.
> 
> Someone just checked in a software change that will allow sysops to 
> customise the names of months and weekdays via pages in the MediaWiki 
> namespace, just like most other things in the user interface. When this 
> change goes live on the site, you will see the month and weekdays names 
> change into English (I believe). Please do not panic when that happens.

I think you're jumping the gun a bit here. We're currently branched with 
experimental code in HEAD. Unless someone backports this to REL1_3, 
it'll be weeks before it goes live.

-- Tim Starling