From b98ad6e4e243fe4695765ba5cedca59100ac88c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Federico Leva Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 09:19:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add release notes for recent language fallback additions Change-Id: Iead6f9160eb19b413104f65bbb9f23b4e65d9865 --- RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 index 43f21eff18..774254ce0f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-1.29 @@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as changes to languages because of Phabricator reports. +* Based as always on linguistic studies on intelligibility and language + knowledge by geography, language fallbacks have been expanded. When a + translation is missing in the user's preferred interface language, the + corresponding translation for the fallback language will be used instead. + English will only be used as last resort when there are no translations. + Some configurations (such as date formats and gender namespaces) have also + been updated when using the fallback language's configuration was inadequate. + The new or reinstated language fallbacks are (after cs ↔ sk in 1.28): + hsb ↔ dsb, io → eo, mdf → ru, pnt → el, roa-tara → it. + ==== No fallback for Ukrainian ==== * (T39314) The fallback from Ukrainian to Russian was removed. The Ukrainian language will now use the default fallback language: English. When a translation -- 2.20.1