On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:44:42AM +0100, Arwel Parry wrote:
In message
<8b722b80040720143078f3360e(a)mail.gmail.com>om>, Angela_
<beesley(a)gmail.com> writes
If any of the other wikis would like username
blocking enabled, they
can request it at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-development_tasks_for_developers
Angela.
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the MediaWiki strings have largely superseded the language files.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".
Hi Arwel,
the problem with the LanguageXX.php pages on meta is that they are
maintained by people who act in good faith, but are not involved in
the development processes. LanguageCy.php for example is based on
revision 1.12. That is a revision from the current "development" branch,
not from the "stable" branch
wikipedia.org is based on. If I apply that
file to the site, lots of things would be broken. Now I have to try to
get the diffs from the file to find out what has changed. History is only
of limited help since it contains both your changes to the content and
your changes caused by the script changes in CVS.
Regards,
JeLuF