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Bug 24951 - Wrong diacritic in Special:Preferences page
Wrong diacritic in Special:Preferences page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Language setup (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal major (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...
: i18n
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Reported: 2010-08-26 22:01 UTC by Strainu
Modified: 2011-02-24 09:35 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Strainu 2010-08-26 22:01:52 UTC
After changing the diacritics on ro.wp (bug 22616), some problems remain with the special pages. All of the special pages containing diacritics have the old diacritics (ş, ţ) instead of the new ones (ș, ț). A simple example is the Special:Preferences page.

From what I can see, in SVN the values are correct: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesRo.php?revision=71552&view=markup

Could someone check why these changes are not reflected in the site's config? Thanks.
Comment 1 Siebrand Mazeland 2010-08-26 22:23:47 UTC
The reason is that WMF is running MediaWiki branch wmf/1.16wmf4 [1] (r64689) based on REL1_16 which is based on trunk r62818. Only critical fixes and WMF 'self development' is updated (that's still hundreds of changesets, but few core features have been added). Because WMF runs LocalisationUpdate, luckily most translation updates are automagically inserted into the Wikimedia wikis, but changes and additions to special page aliases, namespace names, magic words and other MessagesXx.php settings than $messages are not updated.

In essence WMF runs MediaWiki 1.16 release which is based on r62818 (February 22, 2010). MediaWiki trunk is now at r71756 (almost 9,000 changesets more recent).

It will be resolved when WMF deploys a more recent version, which depends on code review capacity within the WMF (which is (too) low at the moment).
Comment 2 Strainu 2010-08-27 08:50:13 UTC
But why aren't special pages translation also made in translatewiki? Since the namespaces are translated there, why can't the namespace aliases and special page aliases also be translated?
Comment 3 Siebrand Mazeland 2010-08-27 09:01:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> But why aren't special pages translation also made in translatewiki? Since the
> namespaces are translated there, why can't the namespace aliases and special
> page aliases also be translated?

That's not what I'm saying. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:AdvancedTranslate allows localisation of namespace names, special page aliases and magic words. But if they are committed and Wikimedia doesn't use them, that's not something translatewiki.net can help. I'm referring back to comment 1 here.
Comment 4 Strainu 2010-08-27 09:35:10 UTC
OK, let me rephrase the question then: is the fact that LocalisationUpdate doesn't update these strings a bug or a feature?

Anyway, since the namespace aliases were updated, I'm hoping that someone will also update the special pages before WMF reaches the corresponding changelist.
Comment 5 Siebrand Mazeland 2010-08-27 09:57:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> OK, let me rephrase the question then: is the fact that LocalisationUpdate
> doesn't update these strings a bug or a feature?

That would be feature request bug 21987, although I'm personally not in favour of updating these settings through LU.
Comment 6 Strainu 2011-02-17 21:21:28 UTC
Fixed by the upgrade to 1.17

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