Last modified: 2013-12-07 23:05:58 UTC
Currently, the OBOD (orange bar of doom) which shows up whenever a user's talk page is modified, uses the following messages for the sentence: MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers[1] and Mediawiki:newmessageslinkplural[2] These messages essentially make it impossible to correctly translate MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers into hindi (and by extension, probably other grammatically similar north Indian languages). The problem is caused by lack of plural support in MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers for $1, ie the number of messages received. The difference is basically equivalent to the english difference of is/are, with sentence structure in MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers needed to be modified based on the number of new messages, which isn't possible since the message doesn't support plural over $1 (as far as I know). In my opinion, it would be best that these messages be joined into one message, seeing that neither is used elsewhere (the doc doesn't specify any other uses for the messages). [1]:http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Youhavenewmessagesfromusers [2]:http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Newmessagesdifflinkplural
I don't think that merging those messages in an option here because Newmessagesdifflinkplural is used in 2 more messages - youhavenewmessages[1] and youhavenewmessagesmanyusers[2]. [1]:http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:youhavenewmessages [2]:http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:youhavenewmessagesmanyusers
Change 99000 had a related patch set uploaded by MegaAlex: Add {{PLURAL: support for youhavenewmessagesfromusers and youhavenewmessages https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/99000
Latest patch is the result of the Google Code-In task http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2013/5881421512048640 so please help reviewing this in a timely manner.
Change 99000 merged by jenkins-bot: Add PLURAL support to youhavenewmessages* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/99000
