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Bug 37196 - "wrong language" doesn't necessarily mean "not English"
"wrong language" doesn't necessarily mean "not English"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
PageCuration (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: i18n
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Reported: 2012-05-29 13:48 UTC by Amir E. Aharoni
Modified: 2012-06-13 17:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Amir E. Aharoni 2012-05-29 13:48:49 UTC
The messages 'pagetriage-tags-notenglish-label' and 'pagetriage-tags-notenglish-desc' are for tagging pages that are not written in the correct language. Currently English is hardcoded, but in non-English wikis the language will be different.

There are several possible solutions:
1. Change the message to say "the language of this wiki". Pro: generic. Con: a bit long and possibly unclear.
2. Suggest in the qqq documentation that the translators replace "English" with the name of the respective language. Pro: easy to do, clear and helps avoiding grammar mistakes (see below). Con: The user may view the site in a different language, and then it will be confusing; though this is probably not very common, it's possible.
3. Change the language name to a parameter and send the native name of $wgLanguageCode as $1. Pro: Generic. Con: It's impossible to write a completely natural sentence, because in many languages the language name will have to be declined, so it will be something like this: "This page is now written in the language of this wiki (English)".

I'm inclined towards numbers 1 or 3, but open to other ideas.

(All of the above also assumes that the right language is the content language of the wiki and doesn't take multilingual wikis into account.)
Comment 1 Siebrand Mazeland 2012-05-29 20:23:01 UTC
I translated as "Incorrect language" and "This page was written in an incorrect language and should be translated." respectively. I think that would work.
Comment 2 Siebrand Mazeland 2012-06-13 17:40:05 UTC
Fixed in Gerrit change #11189 and merged.

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