Last modified: 2012-08-14 11:42:08 UTC
Hallo! I suppose thet http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Special:Validate&mode=manage is restricted to sysops, stewards, developers. Neither <b>Never, <i>ever</i>, change something here without <i>explicit</i> community consensus!</b> nor '''Never, ''ever'', change something here without ''explicit'' community consensus!''' generate bold / italic text. But this is not the issue of this bug report. During translation of the MediaWiki user interface I experienced that the individual messages may have different atributes / may be of different type: - some support wiki syntax - some support only (X)HTML (?) - some none of the two mentioned above - some are active only for the content language as Monobook.css (?) - some will overwrite the message from the content language - other criterias (?) These informations should dispay as abreviations in [[Special:Allmessages]] "near" the title of the message. Many titles indicate by their first characters to what feature / special page they relate. Neither a "''used in''" (whis is a "nice to have") nor a "dependency of configurations - feature activated or not) is required here. Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
note from related bug 2475: Translations should not use localized namespaces in links regarding clasification: add some MediaWiki messages are titles but other are pages ([[MediaWiki:Mainpage]], [[MediaWiki:Currentevents-url]] other "-url"s) some are values of a selection "show" / "hide" [[MediaWiki:Show]] / [[MediaWiki:Hide]] some add explaing text to a particular selection [[MediaWiki:Showhideminor]] others?
addition regarding the "type of the MediaWiki message" classification: some MediaWiki messages will be "preserved" if another user interface is selected trough preferences or uselang=xx as [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]], [[MediaWiki:Monobook.js]] others *not*.
*more details* for the translation of the MediaWiki user interface it is important to know how &#nnnn; will be handeled / rendered, if it generates a) &#nnnn; (untranslated) b) the corresponding Unicode character example where much time is / was wasted: 1) attachment http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=1124&action=view from Bug 4114: RTL related issue with Mozilla Firefox and Netscape: text and checkboxes get squeezed; implement workaround 2) Bug 4024: &foo;-style character conversion is blocked in MediaWiki messages
*** Bug 8521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
