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

Sat Jul 17 21:45:25 UTC 2004

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 05:41:10PM +0100, 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.

Why would anybody want to change month or week names to something different ? 

This interface isn't powerful enough for creating new translations,
and it will break some of those that work now as it doesn't provide
separate nominative and genitive monthnames, like the current software does.