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Bug 7861 - Set up be.wikipedia.org
Set up be.wikipedia.org
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reques...
: shell
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2006-11-10 14:40 UTC by Anton Kazmyarchuk
Modified: 2007-05-05 16:22 UTC (History)
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Attachments
php for the initial batch of the translation of Messages (36.13 KB, application/octet-stream)
2007-03-27 18:22 UTC, Yury Tarasievich
Details
Namespaces' names in PHP array (470 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2007-03-29 10:34 UTC, Yury Tarasievich
Details
Namespaces with unique Talks names (526 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2007-03-31 16:08 UTC, Yury Tarasievich
Details

Description Anton Kazmyarchuk 2006-11-10 14:40:00 UTC
/This is somewhat long text, please be patient.../

Request for the Belarusian (normative) language (also referred to as
academic, modern, official, the language taught at schools, *state
language* of the Republic of Belarus, etc.etc.) now seems to match all
the criteria to get a wikipedia opened.

It has gathered seemingly healthy 3/4 of the votes in Meta (the
request was recently transferred to the "Approved requests" section),
has the significant number of articles and growth rate (2500+,
possibly 2700, articles in ~3 months), and there are at least 8 active
contributors.

Currently, the WP functioning at [[http://be.wikipedia.org]] is
staunchly controlled by the admins coming from the interest group,
promoting the use of the alternative version of the Belarusian
language (orthography, grammar, lexicon; self-naming "classical"),
posing it as the only "really existing and supported" version of the
Belarusian language, pretending to represent all Belarusian language
speakers with this version -- see the discussion and the references.

The normative version is nominally supported there, but rather as a
"live shield" for the alternative version of the language (interface
and texts of rules and categories all done in alternative, permanent
"flashmobbing" of dissenters) -- see the discussion and the
references.

The working "through the orthography convertor" is a red herring
thing, as there is quite more to the differences in the versions of
the language, than "just the difference", and there is no such
*known-working* product with workable database. If the clarifications
or explanations would be needed, please contact us.

The [[:m:Special projects subcommittees/Languages]] is informed about
the problem, has supposedly submitted the request to the Board.
However, some management and communication problems sem to exist, so
possibly the coordination with them would be advisable.

The members of the team of the Belarusian (normative) language
Wikipedia have no wish to evict or close anybody's else Wikipedia. We
would be quite happy with the domain "bel.wikipedia.org"
(iso-639-2,3). We consider this stretching of the rules as non-harming
and consensus-making as possible.

Thank you.

 

Contact persons are 
User:Yury Tarasievich on incubator.wikimedia.org
User:Anton Kazmyarchuk on incubator.wikimedia.org
Comment 1 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-27 18:22:56 UTC
Created attachment 3394 [details]
php for the initial batch of the translation of Messages
Comment 2 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-29 10:34:58 UTC
Created attachment 3398 [details]
Namespaces' names in PHP array
Comment 3 Raimond Spekking 2007-03-29 12:28:58 UTC
I would create the new MessagesBe.php from above files, but before doing the
work I have some questions:

1. What shall we do with the existing MessagesBe.php? Rename it to
MessagesBe-x-old.php and add it to Names.php?
2. What is the local language name? Still 'Беларуская' like now in Names.php?
Comment 4 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-29 12:33:03 UTC
Name is "Беларуская", just like this, yes. Question #1 is not for me to advice.
Comment 5 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-31 16:07:29 UTC
It seems that the Messages.php insertion isn't needed, as the team started
changing the Messages text through the wiki interface.

The issue of the namespaces' names switching remains, though.

Is it considered an error to have a similar translations for all of the Talk
namespaces' names?

In case this is so, I'm attaching the variant of the Namespaces translation with
different names for all the "Talks".
Comment 6 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-31 16:08:12 UTC
Created attachment 3403 [details]
Namespaces with unique Talks names
Comment 7 Raimond Spekking 2007-03-31 16:27:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> It seems that the Messages.php insertion isn't needed, as the team started
> changing the Messages text through the wiki interface.

The localization via wiki interface is nice for bewiki, but we need the message
file for other projects too. Think to people who want to use Wikimedia Commons
or other WMF projects in your language. While the message file is available to
MediaWiki, it's available to all users of MediaWiki whole over the world.
Comment 8 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-31 17:25:32 UTC
You're absolutely right, just that the Messages attached here got obsoleted by
the in-wiki work. We'll certainly produce the Messages for all over the world
etc., as long as we'll understand the procedure.
Comment 9 Raimond Spekking 2007-03-31 19:08:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> You're absolutely right, just that the Messages attached here got obsoleted by
> the in-wiki work. We'll certainly produce the Messages for all over the world
> etc., as long as we'll understand the procedure.

Please be carefully, not every in-wiki translation with subject to Wikipedia can
be used for an international language file. A guideline can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_localisation
Comment 10 Yury Tarasievich 2007-03-31 21:08:24 UTC
Please rest assured we'll be careful and will adhere to the technical specs. Two
of people involved in translation have experience in L10N (OpenOffice and KDE
for the respective language).

It's just the unfamiliar MediaWiki L10N production cycle which seems to give us
bit of trouble.

What of the Namespaces and NamespacesUnique... ?
Comment 11 Yury Tarasievich 2007-04-02 18:00:13 UTC
Coukld I remind you of the names of the namespaces issue.

There are two PHP files attached, one with all Talk namespaces bar 
one having same name, and one with unique names for those.

Please do tell, if there's something more needed to switch 
namespaces names'.
Comment 12 Raimond Spekking 2007-04-02 18:09:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> There are two PHP files attached, one with all Talk namespaces bar 
> one having same name, and one with unique names for those.

I have marked the first namespace file as obsolete. Same names for different
talk namespaces are not possible.

I have modified the other file (NS_WIKIPEDIA --> NS_PROJECT...) and will apply
shortly. 
 
> Please do tell, if there's something more needed to switch 
> namespaces names'.

The switch of the project name has to be done by a server admin. This bug is
marked with the keyword "shell" already.
Comment 13 Raimond Spekking 2007-04-02 21:10:43 UTC
Namespaces and reworked message file applied with r20951. I think it will go
live during this week.

Please provide for the upcoming updates unified diffs against trunk as described
in the guideline.
Comment 14 Raimond Spekking 2007-04-13 07:34:35 UTC
To be consistent I have duplicated LanguageBe_x_old.php to LanguageBe.php
(r21224). If necessary please
provide a patch to correct possible errors in this. Thank you.
Comment 15 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2007-05-05 16:22:07 UTC
Closing bug as the site is available.

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