Re: [SMW-devel] Suiss language for SMW

[kghbln <med...@kg...>]

Great Michael, cool that it worked out. The translations should roll in
after the next sync of the WMF repo with GitHub.

There [0] you would also like to provide a pull request with your patch
to make the fallback happen so James or Jeroen can have a look if it is
cool.

Thanks so much for your involvement!

Cheers Karsten

[0] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki

Am 13.01.2016 um 17:04 schrieb Michael Erdmann:
> Thanks Karsten,
> 
> the link worked great. Now there are de-ch translations in
> Translatewiki. I can see how this could be turned into
>      SMW/I18N/de-ch.json
> automatically.
> But in addition to that, some PHP must also be changed in order to add
> the new language to SMW.
>     SMW/languages/SMW_LanguageDe_ch.php
> to add e.g. the "inheritance" from DE.
> 
> I made the changes locally but how/when do things like this get into a
> future SMW release?
> 
> thx,
>   michael
> 
>  On 12.01.2016 17:50, kghbln wrote:
>> Heiya,
>>
>> probably it is just a matter of adding something like this [0] for
>> de-ch. I just switched my test wiki to de-ch but the namespaces appear
>> to be the same so I cannot replicate the behaviour you are describing.
>> de-ch should fallback to de(-de) as de-formal does. Still namespaces may
>> probably behave differently to regular system messages as described
>> below. There was some canonical namespace stuff talked about somewhere
>> here on the list or on GitHub.
>>
>> However, then it comes to adding de-ch go to the translation interface
>> for Semantic MediaWiki, switch the language setting on the top right to
>> de-ch and start translating. It should look like [1]. Alternatively just
>> set your language preference on the wiki to de-ch and you should
>> automatically get de-ch on the translation interface. Just only
>> translate the messages which are different to de(-de) since there is a
>> fallback from de-ch to de(-de) in place.
>>
>> Cheers Karsten
>>
>> [0]
>> https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/languages/SMW_LanguageDe_formal.php
>>
>> [1]
>> https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-semanticmediawiki&language=de-ch&filter=&action=translate
>>
>>
>> Am 12.01.2016 um 12:24 schrieb Michael Erdmann:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Currently SMW does not support Suisse-German (de-ch) it falls back to
>>> English in that case and uses namespaces such as Property. Ideally it
>>> should fall back to German instead.
>>>
>>> I want to add the Suiss-German language to SMW and also did this locally
>>> by adding de-ch message-file to the I18N folder. I do have a
>>> translate-wiki account  but have no idea how to add a new language to
>>> the translate-wiki project SMW.
>>>
>>> Can anyone do this for me, or tell me how to proceed.
>>>
>>> thx,
>>>
>>>    michael
>>>
>