Last modified: 2006-03-27 10:38:56 UTC
In installing MediaWiki with zh_TW localization, I found that the variable SITE_NAME was hard-coded as 維基百科 (Wikipedia's Chinese name) into languages/LanguageZh_tw.php. As hard-coded data gets populated at the installation stage, this becomes an annoyance. I have referred to LanguageDe.php and made necessary changes for this, leaving $sitesubtitle untouched (maybe it's needed to be addressed in config too?)--the one in LanguageDe.php is also hard-coded. The patch file can be retrieved via the URL given in this bug report, thank you for your attention.
Please use the attachments feature to upload a unified diff against CVS HEAD. Thanks.
You want 'cvs diff -u' against cvs HEAD. Make sure you read: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_localisation
Created attachment 1315 [details] A proposed patch for LanguageZh_tw.php (diff aginst cvs head) Please note that since last time I reported to you this problem, I have also found a number of phrases in LanguageZh_tw.php that does not follow the usage in the Mandarin Chinese used in Taiwan. I have performed global changes to these terms and have asked for collaboration and review from people including hlb (http://hlb.yichi.org/blog/), who is leading the translation and revision plan of the Traditional Chinese version of the W3C Glossary and Jedi Lin (http://jedi.org/blog/), renown for his localization work on many web applications, notable Moveable Type. It is true that this will not be the final version and lots more need to be done, especially review. One thing for sure is that a simple Simplified-to-Traditional Chinese conversion of language file is not enough. Cheers.
for proposing of these changes, I've created a project page that includes the User Interface Translation. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:UIT I hope this will be the more collaborate way to translate the user interface for Mediawiki.
I agree with Shinjiman's idea that there should be a more flexible way for collaboration. At the time I was making this revision for Traditional Chinese, I didn't realize that the code layout for the langauge files has been changed in the current CVS head. I (now we, along with a number of friends who got interested in making the MediaWiki language variant system work) will have to track the changes and merge the works from both what's available already on Wikipedia and the feedbacks of other MediaWiki users (note). Note: Although I understand that all the localization efforts mainly serve Wikipedia, I'll say the number of users of MediaWiki are also growing. They may have different set of needs in terms of language files when they deploy MediaWiki. For example, we use them in http://openvanilla.org and we do have customized it a bit so that the language files (not submitted in this ticket) reflect our glossary needs.
As far as I know, {{SITENAME}} issues are corrected. Closing.
