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Skin not found page links to category in Special:MyLanguage which doesn't show all skins
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Mahabarata73 (talkcontribsblock)

This catedory starts with a text telling users that there are currently 103 skins.

This category is visible in many languages, and this text too.

But if you look at any translated page, you will see the list of skins is very far of this number : 38 for Deutsch, 27 for French, 25 for Spanish for example.

The main reason is that most skins cannot be translated : Skin:Aberrant, Skin:Amethyst to give only 2 examples.

It would be nice if a translation administrator would control all skins in the English category and allow translations with, at least, the title of the skin to be translated as a beginning.
Reply Thank 2 days ago
Mahabarata73 (talkcontribsblock)

A priority before to do that is to remove the "Special:MyLanguage/" part in the first link of the 2 original texts MediaWiki:Default-skin-not-found-no-skins — translatewiki.net and MediaWiki:Default-skin-not-found — translatewiki.net

because for italian, nederlands, dansk or portugues users (and probably more) it shows only between 4 and 6 skins !

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Yeah, some of those links do look bad. Like if the user ends up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_skins/km they aren't going to find what they are looking for

Change #1101108 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brian Wolff; author: Brian Wolff):

[mediawiki/core@master] In no skins message, link to english category not user language

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1101108

Change #1101108 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] In no skins message, link to english category not user language

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1101108

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Change #1174692 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jon Harald Søby; author: Jon Harald Søby):

[mediawiki/core@master] Do not use Special:MyLanguage for category links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1174692

Change #1174694 had a related patch set uploaded (by Winston Sung; author: Jon Harald Søby):

[mediawiki/core@REL1_44] Do not use Special:MyLanguage for category links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1174694

Change #1174692 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Do not use Special:MyLanguage for category links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1174692

Change #1174694 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@REL1_44] Do not use Special:MyLanguage for category links

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1174694