Changing the Romanian namespaces (diacritics)

After a long discussion at [1] we decided to migrate ro.wp from s/t-cedilla (ţ, ş) to s/t-comma (ț, ș). I have changed the namespace names at [2], but we need the old names to be kept as aliases.

Below is a list of standard namespaces with the _OLD_ spelling. They need to be used for _ALIASES_:

1: Discuţie
3: Discuţie Utilizator
5: Discuţie Wikipedia
6: Fişier
7: Discuţie Fişier
9: Discuţie MediaWiki
11: Discuţie Format
13: Discuţie Ajutor
15: Discuţie Categorie

In addition to that, there are 2 more namespaces specific to the Romanian Wikipedia which need to be converted (from the form on the left to the form on the right):

101: Discuţie Portal -> Discuție Portal
103: Discuţie Proiect -> Discuție Proiect

A bugzilla bug with the same request exists [3] and should be closed after making the changes.

Thank you for your help.

[1] http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discu%C5%A3ie_Wikipedia:Sfatul_B%C4%83tr%C3%A2nilor#Concluzii_finale

[2] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?language=ro&module=namespace&title=Special%3AAdvancedTranslate

[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22616

Linked to the request above, I want to ask you if there is anyone able and willing to run a bot to replace ţ,ş with ț,ș in all the Romanian translations. This needs to happen at a later time, after all the preparations are finished on ro.wp.

Will make the replacements now, and ask Raymond to hold off on committing 'ro' until the namespaces are active. Committed the namespaces in mwr:66591, so Wikimedia can merge per bugzilla:22616.

Bot is running now. Will probably take a while.

SieBot made between 3,000 and 3,500 updates in ~10,000 /ro pages.

'ro' excluded in script 'bpmw' for the moment.

Please give me a ping when preparations are finished. Then I will export the changes from translatewiki into SVN. The day after my export it will be live on all Wikimedia projects.

I have just reactivated 'ro' in the MediaWiki export, so Raymond will most probably automatically export the Romanian updates later today, if he remembers to use the correct export window :).

I'm afraid it is still too early. Please hold on until we can have all the preparations finished - I estimate another week or so.

It was committed last evening and is probably live already in the entire Wikimedia cluster since early this morning (CEST).

Yep, I've just noticed it. Well, we'll just have to deal with that :) Thanks for your help Siebrand and Raymond. Hope you won't mind if I come back from time to time and ask you to re-run that bot.