Claudi Meneghin wrote:
Hello,
we will soon need to customize namespaces at Lombard wikipedia; this is mainly due to
three reasons (3 is most important):
1) translating English names
You should create a language file, LanguageLmo.php, and a messages file,
MessagesLmo.php. Then you will be able to translate the English
namespaces, and also you will be able to translate other important
things, including the messages (should not be translated locally in
Wikipedia, as other wikis written in the same language won't include the
translated messages).
2) creating a 'portal' namespace
Just ask for that in Bugzilla (
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org), giving
the names of the portal namespace and its talk namespace, and the
developers with shell access will create it.
3) duplicating 'category' feature, to deal
with the fragmentation of Lombard tongue into two major dialect groups.
It's just impossible.
As to 1) I guess that local Mediawiki should be
enough;
Just right, but you should create one first.
as to 2) it seems to me yet obscure;
See above.
3) cannot be dealt with by creating, say :
'category/west' and 'category/east', since the word 'Category'
itself has two slightly different translations.
Thus an additional namespace is needed, like in case 2).
Case 2 is another case, as a custom namespace cannot be a category
namespace whatsoever. You will have to find another way – creating
another wiki for the second dialect, or ignoring one of them, or
something like that.
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#define Name RotemLiss
#define Mail mailSTRUDELrotemlissDOTcom
#define Site
www.rotemliss.com