Thread:Support/zh-cleanup/reply (2)

In this case what happens with the translation statistics for /zh-cn, /zh-my and /zh-sg? Will be considered incomplete? (even if for most cases they are complete in the sense that they just fallback to the main code language /zh-hans with is correctly translated, avoiding duplicated work)

In general: if most of MediaWiki messages are the same in two variants of some language, do we need to duplicate the effort of translation creating two identical messages? For example, pt-pt and pt-br have a lot of messages in common, but currently they are duplicated even if pt-br has pt-pt as fallback. Is it possible to avoid this duplicated work by just marking somehow that a message don't need to be created because it is equals to the corresponding message in the fallback language?