Enable export for all supported languages with an open Wikipedia

I know. As far as I know, the requirements is in place to avoid having locales that in fact do not provide what they promise (a minimal but usable interface in that language), and to encourage a minimum translation by users in that language wishing to get a site. What I'm asking is if we should still be doing the same for Wikipedias created before the rules were put in place (several years ago) whose languages still don't meet the requirements, given that users are already exposed to an incomplete interface and that translators prefer to translate locally.

Nemo (talk)09:03, 1 April 2013

Indeed this would be quite good to have. Further exceptions do not need to be made, but for these wikis it would be useful to give the users the possibility to only translate smaller parts of the messages (than all most-used msgs) here instead of making local translations as a makeshift.

MF-Warburg17:08, 1 April 2013

I think all those wikis, like bxr (2006), have been created before the localisation requirement was added to the language proposal policy.[1] If translatewiki.net can't lift its rules about those projects, I think the LangCom should do something about them: when 7 years are not enough to get over 6 % localised messages, not even a century will do.

Nemo (talk)13:39, 14 April 2013

"when 7 years are not enough to get over 6 % localised messages, not even a century will do." - I thought that for some at least of these languages, translation has been happening on the Wikipedia but not here. So if they have more than 18% of core messages translated locally (currently about 530 messages), then wouldn't it be possible to import those translations here as a one-off? I know it would require some work to verify that the locally translated messages haven't been customised, but it would at least get them out of their Catch-22 (= situation with no way out).

Lloffiwr (talk)16:21, 25 May 2013

Yes, that was done in 2006 or 2007. However, they could as well copy the messages here themselves, as it's only three hundreds or so?

Nemo (talk)17:38, 25 May 2013

Raymond: Do you need any help with communicating with these wikis about this issue? If so, let me know.

Lloffiwr (talk)18:54, 25 May 2013