Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:37:29 UTC
In the article count feature on MediaWiki 1.5, a comma has been added as a thousand-marker - for example, when ((NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is used, an article count of 1234567 is now rendered 1,234,567. But not all languages use commas as thousand-markers - some use spaes, some use full stops (periods), some use dashes. The thousand-marker should be removed, as it was before, to avoid this problem. If thousand markers are desireable, then perhaps in the future some feature could be included in the Language.php file to specify the thousand-marker required for that language; but for the moment, it should be restored to the previous marker-free style.
Magic words numbers are formated according to the language used. This is done by formatNum() method in the various languages class. If you find any language which is lacking proper formating, please check for the formatNum function in that language file and notify us with a bug report (one per language) or even better a patch implementing the correct formatting :o) Closing for now as MediaWiki already deals with number formatting.
