Forum:Community Widget Localization

I'm trying to complete the French localization of fr.ikariam.wikia.com, and can't seem to find certain strings. In particular, the Latest Activity in the Community sidebar displays time elapsed as "yesterday", "x minutes ago", "x hours ago", etc. Where are those strings?

I'll ask for more as I not-find others, if you see what I mean. :-) Polytherion 00:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * It seems that there's no MediaWiki message for that. Maybe it's hard-coded? The Monaco Skin has this and other text interfaces hard-coded and unable to be translated. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 15:34, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I guess I don't really need to point out how bad a practice that is? Polytherion 04:12, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Touring the Main Pages shows that only the French and English wikikariams show those messages: the "time ago" part is blanked out on the others (Swedish, Polish, Dutch, etc.). Polytherion 04:18, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I went to our (English) System Messages section and this is what I found so far:

As far as I can tell the word Hours' and  Minutes are hard coded so far and as Polytherion mentioned are not on all the different language versions of Ikariam Wikia, I hope those few links helped -- ( Morph | Contribs | Talk ) 21 septembre 2008 à 15:50 (UTC)
 * Minutes-abbrev
 * Hours-abbrev
 * Wikiastats days ago
 * Wikiastats months ago
 * if you go to the top of the page and type in Time you get a few that deal with upload times and such but nothing directly related to that Comunity sidebar settings


 * Yes, the timewords used in that widget are current hard coded in English. A ticket has been filed for this to be changed. We do realize this is bad practice, and we apologize for the inconvenience it has caused so far. Please bear with us a little longer while we get this taken care of. --Uberfuzzy 19:35, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Where are the tickets? I tried Special:ProblemReports, but that's empty. Polytherion 11:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Problem reports is for users to report problem to admins about wiki pages. I was referring to an internal task ticket. I do have some good news! The changes have been made, and will be made available next week. Here is the list of the mediawiki pages and their English defaults if you would like to have them ready to go on your wiki.


 * 'widget-community-secondsago' => ', NaN $1 seconds agos'
 * 'widget-community-minutesago' => ', NaN $1 minutes agos'
 * 'widget-community-hoursago' => ', NaN $1 hours agos'
 * 'widget-community-yesterday' => ', yesterday'


 * NaN undefineds is a magic built in function that looks at the first thing as a number. if it is a 1, it uses the 1st text, if its more then 1, it uses the 2nd text.
 * also please note the comma, then space inside the quotes, this is important, please remember to leave that in there when translating them.
 * --Uberfuzzy 13:29, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Good! Onward:
 * In Special:SpecialPages, three strings: "Most popular articles (from database)"; "Most popular categories"; "Most visited pages"
 * Maybe also the "WidgetDashboard" string, which seems different from MediaWiki:Widgetdashboard
 * The Community widget's caption string
 * The Wikia Spotlight widget's caption string
 * The Related Communities widget's caption string
 * The Languages widget's caption string
 * The text at the bottom of each page, which reads "Hubs Gaming | Entertainment | [...] Advertise on Wikia | Privacy" (I edited the MediaWiki:footer_* strings but that change never "took". If these strings are from the Central Wikia server, there is no point in having them in each language's list of system messages)
 * The Gaming widget's drop-down caption (the one at the very top left that reads "GAMING")

The rest is in various sub-pages, to be dealt with progressively. As the French localisation stabilises, I'll back-port it to the ikariam.wikia pages (e.g. MediaWiki:*/fr). Polytherion 17:54, 23 September 2008 (UTC)