[Wikitech-l] Re: Czech wikipedia: how to ban users?

In message <8b722b80040720143078f3360e(a)mail.gmail.com>om>, Angela_ <beesley(a)gmail.com> writes Oh great, another Meta page that most people won't know exists! :( Please excuse my cynicism, Angela, but I am in despair to see that the top two links off that page are [[Meta:Language files to be updated]] and [[Meta:Requests for languageXX.php update ]], when I have in the last week or so posted both here and on Wiki-en asking whether anybody actually monitors those pages and perhaps even occasionally actions requests on those particular pages since there are currently outstanding update requests going back many months, and only got a reply saying that the MediaWiki strings have largely superseded the language files. Yes, I KNOW that, but there are still things which can only be tweaked using the language file. I've had a request for an update to LanguageCy.php for over two weeks now, because we've got a mis-spelling in the name for "July". I realise we can't expect the developers to drop everything but the present total silence gives us no indication that anyone has even noticed our request, let alone give us an indication of when it might possibly be done. In the last half hour I've written a reply to a complaint on [[cy:Wicipedia:Y Caffi]] from a user who was complaining that while the Welsh word for redirect, ail-cyfeirio, works, when an article is moved the system puts "redirect" in the article, which no longer works because the current version of the language file doesn't have the English synonym in it; the version I've asked to be applied does. I said it should be fixed soon -- am I to be shown up as a liar? I'm sorry, but from my seat on the sidelines of this mailing list I get the impression that the developers are more interested in writing version 4 of MediaWiki than in getting version 3 to work properly in all languages. -- Arwel Parry cy.wikipedia.org http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/