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According to discussion at Thread:Portal talk:Ja/名前空間の翻訳、そろそろ再開しましょう, we decided to change Japanese namespace names of MediaWiki.

summary

• translate Category, Template, Help into Japanese (Katakana)
• change delimiter of talk namespace, from "‐"(U+0x2010) to "・"(U+0x30FB).

  In Japanese keyborad (JIS Keyborad), it's a little hard to input "‐". And it's confused "-"(U+0x002D).

• change translation of talk, from "ノート" and "会話" (used at only User talk) to "トーク".

  "ノート" means (is Katakana-ized word of) "note". "トーク" means (is Katakana-ized word of) "talk"

Old

New

$namespaceNames = array( NS_MEDIA => 'メディア', NS_SPECIAL => '特別', NS_TALK => 'ノート', NS_USER => '利用者', NS_USER_TALK => '利用者‐会話', NS_PROJECT_TALK => '$1‐ノート', NS_FILE => 'ファイル', NS_FILE_TALK => 'ファイル‐ノート', NS_MEDIAWIKI => 'MediaWiki', NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => 'MediaWiki‐ノート', NS_TEMPLATE => 'Template', NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => 'Template‐ノート', NS_HELP => 'Help', NS_HELP_TALK => 'Help‐ノート', NS_CATEGORY => 'Category', NS_CATEGORY_TALK => 'Category‐ノート', );

$namespaceNames = array( NS_MEDIA => 'メディア', NS_SPECIAL => '特別', NS_TALK => 'トーク', NS_USER => '利用者', NS_USER_TALK => '利用者・トーク', NS_PROJECT_TALK => '$1・トーク', NS_FILE => 'ファイル', NS_FILE_TALK => 'ファイル・トーク', NS_MEDIAWIKI => 'MediaWiki', NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => 'MediaWiki・トーク', NS_TEMPLATE => 'テンプレート', NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => 'テンプレート・トーク', NS_HELP => 'ヘルプ', NS_HELP_TALK => 'ヘルプ・トーク', NS_CATEGORY => 'カテゴリ', NS_CATEGORY_TALK => 'カテゴリ・トーク', );

We need your support:

• I know we can use Special:AdvancedTranslate, but it can't make alias of old names.
• How can/should we notice this change to Japanese MediaWiki users/system admins/developers?
• When does this change begin to be used? Next MediaWiki revs? Through mw:Extension:LocalisationUpdate?

Aliases will be taken care of by the committer (me), so just change it. On Wikimedia it may take months, but committing namespace is something I can do this weekend.

Thanks for you reply. How about noticing? How/where need we notice?

Probably the projects that use the Japanese language setting. Also you should check where the namespace names are used hardcoded in your wiki, for example changing {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|ノート|...}} to {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:Talk}}|...}} or {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:1}}|...}}, which will make the function work with both namespace names.

Changes have been committed in mwr:66490. Strangely enough the Japanese updates are not in there. Niklas, could this be a caching issue?

I see they had not been yet. I've committed them in mwr:66497. catrope will update namespaces, special page aliases and magic words in a few hours on Wikimedia wikis.

Thank you!

catrope didn't manage to get around to it today. He said he'd do it Monday.