Please correct the names of namespaces in Goan Konkani (gom-deva)
In each of the following cases, although the current namespace name is a Konkani word, it is not a commonly-used word, and the translations in [[http://translatewiki.net]] all use the word that we are proposing to change to. This creates a disconnect in users' minds, because the localised messages all use one term, and the namespace names are a different, obscure word.
| **Namespace** | **Presently used name** | **Correct Konkani name** |
| Help | मजत | आदार |
| Help talk | मजत चर्चा | आदार चर्चा |
| Category | श्रेणी | वर्ग |
| Category talk | श्रेणी चर्चा | वर्ग चर्चा |
| Media | मिडिया | माध्यम |
| User | उपेगकर्तो | वापरपी |
| User talk | उपेगकर्तो चर्चा | वापरपी चर्चा |
See the message on the [[https://gom.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:समाजाचे मुखेल पान#Correction_of_namespace_names|local discussion page]]
The change must be made in gom-deva, because gom falls back to gom-deva.
**Managing the effect of the changes on existing links**
I have done a small study about how the existing links to these namespaces will be affected:
- Media: 0 Media pages and 0 links to Media pages exist on the Konkani wikipedia, so no action needed.
- Help: 2 Help pages exist, with only one link to a Help page, so this one link can be manually changed.
- Help talk: 0 Help talk pages and 0 links to Help talk pages exist, so no action needed.
- User and User talk: Nearly all links are from signatures on talk and discussion pages, so this would be a minor inconvenience if not handled. A handful of links are from project pages, these can easilt be updated manually.
- Category and Category talk: We would have to manage the links to these pages, because links to categories exist on every article. I prefer not to add aliases, because it increases server load, reduces performance, and introduces non-uniformity in linking to the respective namespaces. I would prefer to run a one-time script that would update the category links on all pages. This script could also handle the links to User and User talk pages. For example Pywikibot's //replace.py// could be used, but I think that Pywikibot has not been installed on the Konkani Wikipedia yet.