Message: 2
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:50:14 +0200
From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki@gmail.com>
To: bawolff+wn@gmail.com, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
<commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] translation of categories
Message-ID: <5007CA46.6040100@gmail.com>
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bawolff, 25/02/2011 22:53:
> Someone in the thread on friendliness mentioned that categories are
> always in one language (usually english). Well still a long way from
> fixing the issue, perhaps if we allowed unrestricted
> {{DISPLAYTITLE:...}}, combined with the {{int: hack, that'd allow
> better translatable categories. (of course you'd only be able to use
> the actual category name in [[category:Foo]] links. I suppose one
> could use a bot to automatically change links to redirect categories
> to their canonical name, but then we're getting really really hacky).
>
> Anyways, just a thought.
There's a feature request for the Translate extension (which is needed
anyway to make MediaWiki a multilingual wiki) at:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29975
Nemo