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Citoid messages in VE suddenly became untranslated
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Today we noticed, that the translations of Citoid messages in VE in ukwiki suddenly became untranslated (returned to the default English).

The translations on Translatewiki are there from May 26. But, for example, the message MediaWiki:Citoid-citefromiddialog-mode-auto/uk is shown in English. The same is for the other languages (e.g. pl.

What could be the reason? We can create local translations, but it would be better if they stayed connected to translatewiki.

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The same is in Polish Wikipedia.

There was a change to the names in the message keys. The message keys were
mixed case, and they are required to be lower cased. Those messages will
have to be retranslated.

Those messages were renamed in translatewiki, there is nothing to translate. I tried to use null edits there but nothing happened. Will see tomorrow if those null edits have any effect on those messages.

Actually there were many renames in translatewiki and MediaWiki namespace earlier, but I've never seen an issue like this.

Mvolz triaged this task as Unbreak Now! priority.Jun 20 2015, 4:52 PM
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Mvolz lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to High.Jun 20 2015, 5:44 PM

Hi from midsummer holidays ;)

Our scripts only exports languages which have recently had changes to avoid unnecessary work. Message renaming is not detected as a change. "Full export" is needed to update all languages.

I figured it would be something like that. Should we open a separate ticket to make that be considered a change?
@Raymond, would you be able to run the full export to the Citoid repository please?

Yes you can file a task or even a fix if you dare (scripts/export.php around line 150).

I can do export for citoid tonight if I don't forget.

Change 219595 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nikerabbit):
Localisation updates from https://translatewiki.net.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/219595