On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:10 PM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 16 December 2014 at 04:45, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
<bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marc Ordinas i
Llopis <
marcoil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Due to how MediaWiki's messages system works,
changes to the display
styles need to be copied into each of the ~300 display languages for
users,
else those users with different languages will
see different reference
styles on the same page.
That sounds like bug T33216, which was fixed a while ago. Does this
actually occur now?
No, this is talking about the problem of changing the rendering styles
needing to be done in each of the customised languages manually through
the translation system (and being totally unlike what the translation
system on
TranslateWiki.net generally uses and is suited for). It was not
meant to be referring to
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33216, which I
believe is still fixed, yes.
I note that all the formatting messages are marked as "optional" or
"ignore" for TranslateWiki,[1] and most languages are already falling back
to the English versions. It also looks like we could reduce the number of
languages not falling back significantly by killing the ones that are
identical to the English, and the few that are left (besides maybe
cite_references_link_many_format_backlink_labels) look to me like they'd
probably be better as local-wiki customizations.
I'm not trying to say the rest of the reasons for doing this aren't good,
just that "updating 300 translations" doesn't seem to actually be a problem
that needs solving.
[1]: