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Bug 27398 - $namespaceGenderAliases not compatible with $wgExtraNamespaces
$namespaceGenderAliases not compatible with $wgExtraNamespaces
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
1.18.x
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Niklas Laxström
: i18n
Depends on:
Blocks: gender 27691 28052
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Reported: 2011-02-14 13:19 UTC by Leinad
Modified: 2011-09-16 16:12 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Leinad 2011-02-14 13:19:56 UTC
When $namespaceGenderAliases is set in MessagesXX.php (where XX is a language code), the configuration $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_USER] = "Foo"; in LocalSettings.php not works.

In my opinion $wgExtraNamespaces should overrides $namespaceGenderAliases

or

as in my humble suggestion (read https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160#c19 and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17160#c20) there should be possibility to set in LocalSettings.php namespace in proper gender form:
$wgExtraNamespaces[NS_USER] = array (male => "male form", female => "female form");
Comment 1 Bryan Tong Minh 2011-02-14 13:23:33 UTC
$wgExtraNamespaces is for configuring extra namespaces, not to reconfigure existing namespaces. Are you sure you don't want $wgNamespaceAliases?
Comment 2 Leinad 2011-02-14 13:29:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> $wgExtraNamespaces is for configuring extra namespaces, not to reconfigure
> existing namespaces. Are you sure you don't want $wgNamespaceAliases?

$wgExtraNamespaces allows configuring extra namespaces *and also* reconfigure  existing namespaces, for example please look at  http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php - in default MediaWiki installation user namespace is "Użytkownik" (User) and using $wgExtraNamespaces we can reconfigure user namespace to "Wikipedysta" (Wikipedian).
Comment 3 Bryan Tong Minh 2011-02-14 13:36:24 UTC
Hmm ok. Assigning to Niklas then.
Comment 4 Leinad 2011-02-14 13:38:23 UTC
And one more issue connected with this bug...

To reproduce:
1. set $namespaceGenderAliases in MessagesXX.php
2. set $wgExtraNamespaces[NS_USER] = "Foo"; in LocalSettings.php
3. for example open [[Special:AllPages]] and try choose user namespace in "Namespace:" - there will be "Foo".
Comment 5 Niklas Laxström 2011-02-15 12:42:34 UTC
A new global perhaps? Aay $wgExtraNamespaceGenderAliases, although I'd rather avoid adding new globals if possible.
Comment 6 Leinad 2011-02-16 20:11:54 UTC
If it is not possible to integrate functionality in single global - $wgExtraNamespaces, an extra global would be the best solution.
Comment 7 Platonides 2011-03-06 21:46:46 UTC
If it is a string, it overrides all genders, else it can be an array, with $namespaceGenderAliases format.
Comment 8 Purodha Blissenbach 2011-03-15 08:34:33 UTC
How would you then deal with the situation where you have "user" and "wikipedian", e.g. having to have gendered aliases each? Only one of them could be automatically genderized. I believe that suffices. Anyone else?
Comment 9 Platonides 2011-03-15 17:16:56 UTC
I don't follow you, Purodha. Where do you have user and wikipedian? Where are you configuring that?
Comment 10 Purodha Blissenbach 2011-03-15 23:32:47 UTC
We have Medmaacher (with spelling variant Metmaacher) for masculine, neuter, and unknown, and Medmaachėrn (with spelling variant Metmaacherin) for female1 and female2. Literally, these words translate to "corroborator", "participant".

I was speaking generally. If you have 2 base words, only one can be currently used as the standard word. While it does not have to be the same word all the times, in one place/situaton only one can be generated.

Btw. We did not and do have varying namespacenames per gender set.
This morning, I wanted to quickly figure what exactly to do for it.
While the current system of male/female is indeed easily set up,
I detected that we need to have 20 choices to cover all cases occurring in our grammar when talking _about_ users (including "unknown" cases but not counting T/F forms, or polite forms, or forms addressing people) These 20 choices can be experessed with two variables having 5 and 4 possible values, respectively, one being the "grammatical gender" (declension properties) of the name or nickname, the other being the "natural gender" of a user. One can use "<user-or-bot-name> altered <his/her/its> userpage." as a key sentence which has all 20 variantes.
Comment 11 Leinad 2011-03-16 00:17:00 UTC
I still don't understand Purodha - how is it connected with this bug?

MediaWiki allows to set default $namespaceGenderAliases and the purpose of this bug is to resolve collisions with $wgExtraNamespaces (in case when we want reconfigure name of default namespace).
Comment 12 Leinad 2011-06-28 23:19:05 UTC
Hello,

Is there any progress with this bug?

Currently namespace GENDER support is very partial and couldn't be deployed to Wikimedia projects (this bug has been tagged "Version: 1.18").
Comment 13 Niklas Laxström 2011-06-28 23:22:04 UTC
Why couldn't it be deployed? This variable is only needed for specifying wiki specific gendered namespaces, which I think only few Wikimedia wikis will do. The general "user" translations will come through normal means in i18n files.
Comment 14 Leinad 2011-06-28 23:34:55 UTC
On http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesPl.php?view=markup there is:

$namespaceGenderAliases = array(
	        NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Użytkownik', 'female' => 'Użytkowniczka' ),
	        NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Dyskusja_użytkownika', 'female' => 'Dyskusja_użytkowniczki' ), 
);

and on http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php there is:

'wgExtraNamespaces' => array(
    'plwiki' => array( 
        NS_USER => 'Wikipedysta',
        # Lower case w in wikipedysty as per bug #10064
        NS_USER_TALK => 'Dyskusja_wikipedysty',
),

if you deploy current svn verion, it will reset current configured for Polish Wikipedia user namespace (details at the top of this bug).
Comment 15 Leinad 2011-06-28 23:38:04 UTC
In other words:

Default MediaWiki user namespace is:

$namespaceGenderAliases = array(
            NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Użytkownik', 'female' =>
'Użytkowniczka' ),
            NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Dyskusja_użytkownika', 'female'
=> 'Dyskusja_użytkowniczki' ), 
);

but Polish Wikipedia should have:

NS_USER => array( 'male' => 'Wikipedysta', 'female' =>
'Wikipedystka' ),
NS_USER_TALK => array( 'male' => 'Dyskusja_wikipedysty', 'female'
=> 'Dyskusja_wikipedystki' ),
Comment 16 Leinad 2011-09-16 14:38:15 UTC
Hi,

Is there any chance to fix this bug before announced deployment of MW 1.18 (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18)? Otherwise gender namespace support couldn't be introduced in Wikimedia projects.
Comment 17 Niklas Laxström 2011-09-16 16:12:29 UTC
r97296.

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