Re: Finnish translation of interface...

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 timo.kankare-LhJqALMAyK3QT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello there

Hello and welcome!

> I would like to start translating Wikipedia software interface for
> Finnish language even tought Finnish Wikipedia has not yet been
> upgraded.  Is there somebody already translating it?
>
> I have got the source code from CVS and found various Language*.php
> files. I think I need to create LanguageFi.php file.  Do I take a copy
> of Language.php for it and start translating?

That's the simplest way, yes. (Just a note: you can leave out most of the
function definitions at the bottom, most will inherit the default behavior
for things like character set handling. Or, you can leave them and I'll
just take them out later. Whatever, no biggie.)

> What should I do when I
> have something done?  Sould I update "Locales for the Wikipedia
> Software"[1] page? How does it work? Is there some automagic method to
> include changes to source code or is it done manually?

Currently, updates must be committed manually. You can put a page in the
locales section on meta.wikipedia.org, or e-mail the file to this list
with a note, and I'll commit it to CVS.

As a reminder, the wiki itself won't be updated until I finish updating
the conversion script from the old wikis to the current Wikipedia database
format. I'm sorry, I'm way behind on this and it's not done yet. :( But,
if the language files are ready first I can install them immediately when
the upgrade is done. :)

A friendlier translation system which won't require so much manual
intervention is planned, but won't be started on until after all the wikis
are updated to the new software and server.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)