Talk:Environment Survey/MediaWiki Extensions/Criteria

Missing criteria?

I am completely missing the requirement for proper i18n and L10n here. I think they should be a formal requirement. Siebrand 00:01, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.s. why do I have to fill out a capcha for the above?

Some more detail:

All UI elements containing text should be using the wfLoadExtensionMessages methods
Whereever available, all MediaWiki i18n features should be usable and used (plural, grammar, gender) in a user's language preference
All numbers, dates, times should be formatted to a user's language preference when part of the UI. Timestamps should not be used in running sentences (use separated date/time variables)
Messages should not be stuck together. Even though this may work for a few languages besides English, it is bound to give issues with many other languages
Whenever icons are used that can have culturally defined symbols, they should be localisable (see f.e. $imageFiles in MessagesEn.php)
No UI text elements should be formatted in a fixed way (think comma separated lists (use $wgLang->commaList()), pipe separators, text in parentheses, etc.)

There is probably an i18n/L10n handbook somewhere that describe a few more requirements in a much more complete and comprehensible way...Siebrand 00:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's a great point. I've added that to the list of criteria. Thanks for the feedback Arash Boostani 05:25, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Browser compability

Why are we browser-vendor specific and not W3C-Standard-HTML specific? --84.44.152.40 14:49, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]