Re: LanguagePt.php

Luiz Rogerio wrote:
> Esta discusão sera em inglês porque ela involve uma pessoa que não
> fala portugês, se alguem quiser eu posso traduzir.
> 
> 
> Ok. Hashar you asked me explain the problem so here it is:

Yup that's me, sorry for the late answer, I have a new job in real life
and have been really busy for the last weeks.

> In the portuguese language as is the case with other laguages that are
> present in many countries such as spanish, enlgish, french etc..
> there are peculiarities wich vary localy, in portuguese we have two
> official standards the brazilian and the portuguese one, the
> diferences mainly being the spelling of a few words. At pt.wiki there
> was some discussion if it was the case to have separate wikis for
> both languages, the majority was obviously agaisnt that and so we
> only have one wiki. The thing with having two .php files is that it
> goes against just that. Another worry is that it might lead ppl who
> are not portuguese speakers to think that the two versions are
> largely diferent since there inst a britsh english and an american
> enlgish file, just one for english and for everyother language.
> 
> If Got_It had a problem with the word choice in the interface he
> should have proposed his changes for voting not done as he did,
> asking for a second one without consulting anyone.
> 
> I guess that pretty much covers it. Again thank you for your time
> looking into this :)
> 
> Acer

The LanguagePt.php file in MediaWiki was outdated: it cames from an old
version and was missing a lot of entries.

Get_it contacted me on IRC (a chat system) and proposed a new and up to
date LanguagePt file. During August and September, avar, nikerabbit and
I did a lot of updates to various languages files and Get_It proposal
looked fine.

I asked him what to do with the old file, and he told me it was more
like portuguese-brazillian. We agreed to keep a copy of it as
LanguagePT_br.php and used his file to update LanguagePt.php.


We will keep the LanguagePt.php cause it is updated and almost complete.
The LanguagePT_br.php is not used for any wiki, it just there to let
some people customize their user interface messages (just like a french
guy could use a spanish interface on the portuguese wiki).

But LanguagePt.php is also the base for pt.wikipedia.org which seems to
cause some troubles among the community.


My proposal:
Get_it did a good job on updating the file, its now technically up to
date. The portuguese community can then discuss about the various
messages and try to reach a consensus about what to put exactly in the file.

Once you have agreed on a change, you can compile a new LanguagePt.php
file and we will replace the actual one (and eventually delete
LanguagePT_br.php if you want).

cheers,



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