Arwel Parry wrote:
On the cy: wikipedia we have noticed that user
"MediaWiki default" (a
bot?) seems to run every 6 months or so and repeatedly resets many of
the MediaWiki strings either to an older version which has been
corrected or (even worse) to English. I've just had to edit
:cy:MediaWiki:Go from "mynd" (travel) to "ewch" (imperative) again!
It is intensely annoying to have to repeatedly go through
Special:Allmessages trying to find out what has been screwed up (our
users usually notice when the labels of the editing tabs or the sidebar
go crazy). I know you need to create new strings for new features in
MediaWiki but for goodness' sake can the bot be altered so that it
doesn't interfere with pre-existing strings?
Unless someone's requested an explicit overwrite run, only messages
either not present or last edited by 'MediaWiki default' (ie those
created by the installer or periodic upgrades and refreshes) are
automatically updated. If something's been auto-updated that shouldn't
have, perhaps either it's a bug (in which case details always help to
track it down!) or the language file has changed that way and it's a
legitimate update from the software's point of view.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)