Template talk:Steward elections

Suggestion to format times for translations

Hi I suggest to make these changes to this template to better format times for different languages. Currently for example Finnish language says: "...are open from 27 joulukuun 2019, 11:40 (UTC)", when the correct format should be "27. joulukuuta 2019, klo 11.40 (UTC)". If we make those changes everyone can make the time format appropriate for their language. Currently time formats are wrong for most languages. This format is used in tech news, for example Tech/News/2019/51 (see a related post on a mailing list from 2017: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2017-January/003773.html). Stryn (talk) 12:11, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Support and please do so on {{Steward election status}} as well so that we don't need to include #time in Chinese and Japanese translations. --WhitePhosphorus (talk) 13:32, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

@Stryn: I think you can implement these changes - you have waited over a year to do so. (I would like to edit the time format for Hungarian, could you point me to where I can do that?) - Xbspiro (talk) 01:45, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

I remember something was not working when I tried to make those changes (see link). I can't exactly remember what was broken. If someone has time/interest to try they can try on their user page / sandbox. I ended up using an example from Polish translation and now Finnish translation unit looks like this. Stryn (talk) 10:25, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok, so the first one (my original message) seems to be working fine (diff). Maybe I'll try later again the other one. Also translations need to be updated. Stryn (talk) 11:22, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Header

Perryprog, I see that you were attempting to fix some rendering problem, but I do not observe it, for me the header "Election Committee" works just fine. Could you point out where and in which language you experience it? --Base (talk)`

Hi Base—for whatever reason (I really want to blame cacheing, but I may have just been having a brain fart) my last revert to ZabeMath's edit fixed the issue I was having. The header for § Electoral Committee was on the same line as the last line of the table above it. I had confirmed this with Special:ExpandTemplates for each of my edits, but only the final revert actually worked as expected. I didn't want to make a whole other null edit stating it was fixed, as I had already junked up its edit history a bit. Sorry for any confusion! Perryprog (talk) 01:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Perryprog, no worries, good that it now works as expected for you as well :) --Base (talk) 01:48, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Internationalization error

All special:MyLanguage/ part does not work properly: I checked /ja and /zh. Any mending please? --Omotecho (talk) 00:47, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

It seems to be working just fine at SE2021. Which part are you talking about? Minorax (talk) 00:59, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

@Minorax: Appreciate your crisp response. Could it be an iPhone issue I wonder. on /ja, as you see, top navbox nor body text does not output Special:MyLanguage/ properly... iOS14.4, iPhone 6Splus. --Omotecho (talk) 02:30, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

@Omotecho: I believe that it’s suppose to be like that since there is a variable ({{{year}}}) that needs to be given. See the code at SE2021. Minorax (talk) 06:19, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

@Minorax: confirmed, thank you for your support. --Omotecho (talk) 11:36, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Template not internationalized properly

The all-candidates table currently uses {{int:Confirmable-yes}} and {{int:Confirmable-no}}. This does not work. In some languages (e.g., yue, or I would suspect all languages under the zh umbrella, including zh itself), a Yes/No for a vote is a completely different word than an ordinary Yes/No. Using the same word makes the table incomprehensible; in fact the current translation is quite misleading because int:Confirmable-No is translated as a phrase (actually a sentence, because there’s a period) that can mean “I’m not sure.”

It is also very difficult to track down translation errors in that table. We are asked to localize this template, but a lot on this template cannot be localized through the translation interface.Al12si (talk) 04:45, 12 February 2023 (UTC)