On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 09:34:42PM +0100, Arwel Parry wrote:
In message <cdbks0$qar$1(a)sea.gmane.org>rg>, Timwi
<timwi(a)gmx.net> writes
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.
Will it screw things up if we create these in advance of your software
change?
Probably not, but there is no need in creating them in advance as they are
automatically taken from the current translation.
While I'm on the subject of local language
versions, I posted a query to
Wikitech-l last week about who, if anyone, monitors and applies
requested changes to the LanguageXX.php files, requested via
[[meta:Requests for languageXX.php update]] and [[meta:Language files to
be updated]] and got no reply at all --- there are requests on there
that go back to last March and there is no indication that any of them
have been actioned.
[[meta:Requests for languageXX.php update]] is rather dead, it is from the
time before users were able to customize messages using MediaWiki:...
Regards,
JeLuF