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Recent changes messages

Recent changes messages

When I look at Recentchangestext ("-") translations, it seems obviously incorrect: The English original is set to “-” (i.e. unused, empty), but the (older) translations still use the text which now resides at Recentchanges-summary ("Track the most recent changes to the wiki on this page.").

The problem is that on 2011-04-16, r86186 moved the message from Recentchangestext to Recentchanges-summary, which was quite correctly processed by Raymond who “moved MediaWiki:Recentchangestext/xx to MediaWiki:Recentchanges-summary/xx: Text replace - "Recentchangestext" to "Recentchanges-summary"”). However, on 2011-04-18, FuzzyBot recreated all those Recentchangestext translations, because “Importing a new translation”. I believe the correct solution would be to remove all those translations from the translation source files, and mark the message as optional. (For now, I changed at least MediaWiki:Recentchangestext/cs to “-”.)

Mormegil (talk)21:02, 23 May 2012

There is no problem. Don't worry about it.

Siebrand10:06, 30 May 2012

How come? If you have a clean MediaWiki install with a non-English content language, the RC page is going to start with a duplicated message (one from Recentchanges-summary (in your UI language), the other from Recentchangestext (always in content language, this one should not be there)). See e.g. wikiquote:be:Special:RecentChanges.

Mormegil (talk)11:02, 30 May 2012

Can you show me such an out of the box installation?

Really, don't worry about it.

Siebrand11:04, 30 May 2012

E? I don’t get it. Belarussian Wikiquote is an example of a real working MediaWiki installation suffering from this bug.

I don’t have to worry about this since I have fixed the Czech translation. I just thought somebody might care about the other languages. But OK, I’ll take that as someone else’s problem.

Mormegil (talk)11:29, 30 May 2012

Then it's not a localisation issue, but a code issue. The code I saw meant to prevent this.

Siebrand11:55, 30 May 2012

Just to confirm that we have the same issue on cy wikipedia.

Lloffiwr (talk)18:53, 1 June 2012
 

The code checks whether the message is - or empty. However we have old translation of this message which are not empty: http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&message=MediaWiki:Recentchangestext

Nike (talk)20:26, 13 June 2012

I think the code is now updated on Wikimedia wikis so that this is not an issue anymore.

Siebrand22:53, 14 June 2012