Adding a table of Mediawiki plural formatting rules
Yes, I agree that plural needs better documentation. At present, the documentation for translators is mainly on the FAQ page. I intend to draft documentation for the plural page, intended mainly for translators. Would be grateful for all contributions!
The table of Mediawiki plural rules by language has been started, and awaits comments.
Looks good. What kind of comments are you looking for?
Good question. How about:
- Is there any more information that it would be useful to add to the table?
- The wording of the 'rules' follows the pattern on the CLDR table except without 'n'. OK?
- The group names follow the group names in the SVN table for CLDR. I think it will be useful to be able to sort the table by group.
- Have just realised that I haven't yet added a link to the language portal to the language names - will do that in due course.
Yup, its much better than Plural/Comparison of plural rules in various databases.
Am glad you like the table. To be fair, the purpose of the comparison table (tool in discussion on convergence between various plural rules) is very different to the purpose of the new table (general reference tool of Mediawiki plural rules).
Just few thoughts and suggestions:
- PLURAL rules for languages should imho be mentioned on their respective portal pages. I do not know current coverage. At least on Portal:ksh, I've included the MediaWiki versions of PLURAL, GENDER, and GRAMMAR.
- It would likely be wise, to have a common per language source for entries in various lists, such as Plural and possibly other, and portal pages, with can be included everywhere.
- The namespace "Portal:" is imho bewildering for newcomers, except ones coming from Omegawiki. "Language:" would likely be more intuitive.