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Bug 5662 - {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is not formatted according to user language


Summary:	{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is not formatted according to user language

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Internationalization (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Lowest minor with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Reported:	2006-04-19 23:18 UTC by David Benbennick
Modified:	2011-03-13 18:06 UTC (History)
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Description David Benbennick 2006-04-19 23:18:55 UTC

On the Commons, {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} displays with a comma as the numeric
separator: 29,949.  That's fine for English, but Spanish wants to use . and
other languages might use other separators.  MediaWiki currently has a very
inflexible support for different separators in a few cases.  For example,
[[MediaWiki:Sitestatstext]] takes variable $2 which is NUMBEROFARTICLES with the
localized separator.

A more flexible solution would be if {{NUMBEROFARTICLES|.}} did the obvious
thing (the variable acts like a template, and uses the first argument as the
separator).  Then we could localize that number in places that MediaWiki hasn't
thought of, for example the Spanish version of the Main Page, [[Commons:Portada]].

Obviously the same issue applies to all other numeric variables.

Comment 1 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2006-04-20 20:17:31 UTC

On the special page:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
we use $wgLang which can be the user prefered language, that's why
the numbers are correctly formatted.

But {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} in an article or in a template is formatted
using $wgContLang which is the site language for content. There is
only one such language which is english for commons.

There is no real way to fix this issue :/

Comment 2 David Benbennick 2006-04-20 21:26:16 UTC

What's wrong with my proposed solution, taking the separator as a parameter? 
That is certainly within the realm of possibility, whether or not it is feasible
in the current MediaWiki code.

Comment 3 sanbec 2006-04-21 08:29:34 UTC

To close wiht a "WONTFIX" is not a good solution. There are many solutions: the
proposed by David or i.e. to force the variable to use the language defined in a
parameter, instead the predetermined by $wgContLang

{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} uses the $wgContLang localization

{{NUMBEROFARTICLES|es}} (or {{NUMBEROFARTICLES/es}}) uses the spanish localization
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES|en}} uses the english localization

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