Just to be certain: this request is about creating the 4 namespace above in http://zh.wikisource.org, right? If so, shouldn't the new namespace be localised with an alias in English, if needed?

I originally proposed localised namespace names, and the local members indicated that this wiki does not currently wish to have localised names.

Compare with the existing namespaces which are not localised:
http://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&variant=zh-hans

Would it be appropriate to have the Page and Index namespace numbered 104-107 as in the English configuration, in order to reserve 100-103 for the Portal and Author namespaces if zh.ws later desires them?

'zhwikisource' => array(
    104 => 'Page', //

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15722

   105 => 'Page talk',
   106 => 'Index',
   107 => 'Index talk',
),

plese add:

'zhwikisource' => array(
    104 => 'Page', //

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15722

   105 => 'Page talk',
   106 => 'Index',
   107 => 'Index talk',
   108 => '作者', //作者 is authuor alias
   109 => '作者 talk',

),

thanks.

The zh.ws community has agreed to have also add a Author namespace:

http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:%E5%86%99%E5%AD%97%E9%97%B4#.E5.90.8D.E5.AD.97.E7.A9.BA.E9.97.B4

zh.ws is not using localised namespaces, so I think that the proposed changes should be:

'zhwikisource' => array(
    102 => 'Author', //

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15722

103 => 'Author talk',
104 => 'Page', //

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15722

   105 => 'Page talk',
   106 => 'Index',
   107 => 'Index talk',
),

If zh.ws wants to start using localised namespaces, they should need to discuss it and find consensus, and then request the changes in a separate bug, as it also affects the existing namespaces that would also need to be changed.(User:, User_talk:, Talk:, wikisource:, etc)

jus168jih wrote:

When adding "author" and "author talk" namespaces, please use English for now. All pages prefixed "作者:" will have to be moved to be prefixed "Author:".

zy26 wrote:

Would you add the namespaces as soon as possible?
We will discuss localised namespaces later.
Thanks.

thomasV1 wrote:

why is this taking so much time ?

The namespaces have been added in English. If localized namespace aliases are required, please reach consensus and open a new bugzilla request.