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

Sat Jul 17 19:59:47 UTC 2004

Believe it or not, I think this could be the type of messages which 
would gain to be announced on wikipedia itself.

Just as a general message, send through an automated system, JUST when 
the change is made.

(ant running away)

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.
> 
> Please create pages called [[MediaWiki:January]] etc. and 
> [[MediaWiki:Sunday]] etc. in your local Wikipedia and translate the 
> months/weekdays names appropriately.
> 
> In case you're not sure about the correct spellings, I have included 
> them below.
> 
> Greetings,
> Timwi
> 
> 
> Weekday names:
> [[MediaWiki:Sunday]]
> [[MediaWiki:Monday]]
> [[MediaWiki:Tuesday]]
> [[MediaWiki:Wednesday]]
> [[MediaWiki:Thursday]]
> [[MediaWiki:Friday]]
> [[MediaWiki:Saturday]]
> 
> Month names:
> [[MediaWiki:January]]
> [[MediaWiki:February]]
> [[MediaWiki:March]]
> [[MediaWiki:April]]
> [[MediaWiki:May]]
> [[MediaWiki:June]]
> [[MediaWiki:July]]
> [[MediaWiki:August]]
> [[MediaWiki:September]]
> [[MediaWiki:October]]
> [[MediaWiki:November]]
> [[MediaWiki:December]]
> 
> Abbreviated month names:
> [[MediaWiki:Jan]]
> [[MediaWiki:Feb]]
> [[MediaWiki:Mar]]
> [[MediaWiki:Apr]]
> [[MediaWiki:May]]
> [[MediaWiki:Jun]]
> [[MediaWiki:Jul]]
> [[MediaWiki:Aug]]
> [[MediaWiki:Sep]]
> [[MediaWiki:Oct]]
> [[MediaWiki:Nov]]
> [[MediaWiki:Dec]]