About [[MediaWiki:Pfunc-convert-unit-volume-barreloil/he]]

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Hi,

Messages such as these:

• MediaWiki:Pfunc-convert-unit-length-metre
• MediaWiki:Pfunc-convert-unit-length-angstrom
• MediaWiki:Pfunc-convert-unit-length-mile

all have a problem: they only take the plural of the word itself, but the number is left out. For example, MediaWiki:Pfunc-convert-unit-length-mile is {{PLURAL:$1|mile|miles}}.

Usually in such messages the number itself is not only an argument, but also a part of the return value and for a good reason: in some languages one is treated differently from plural. For example, in Hebrew the number 1 comes after the noun and all the other numbers come before it.

These messages must be re-written as {{PLURAL:$1|$1 mile|$1 miles}}. In Hebrew it would be something like {{PLURAL:$1|mile $1|$1 miles}}.

Thanks.

(P.S. I tried posting it on mediawiki-i18n, but received no reply.)

I think we have to "fixme" the original commit on not adding the numbers to the messages. You can do that at mwr:81074 (which already has been marked fixme, by the way for another issue.

mediawiki-i18n is very low traffic, not that many people on it.

Someone on IRC suggested it (Raymond?)