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i18n for NUMBEROFARTICLES
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... and probably for other similar magic words.

Take for example Commons main page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Etusivu?uselang=fi in Finnish with Finnish interface, where NUMBEROFARTICLES appears as 5,809,086 and at the same time on statistics page http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics?uselang=fi with Finnish interface, where the same number appears as 5 809 086.

It could do the same with NUMBEROFARTICLES – despite using decimal separator, use spaces to show numbers in groups of three.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:56 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Internationalization.
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Pikne created this task.Jan 26 2010, 12:13 PM
Platonides added a comment.Jan 26 2010, 8:56 PM

Variables like {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} have the number formatted according to the content language. You can see how in fi.wikipedia it has the second format.
I don't think it should be changed for the general case. Although for a site like Wikimedia Commons which is full of {{int: }}, it makes sense.

siebrand added a comment.Aug 29 2010, 11:58 AM

We're not changing this for the same reason we're not processing accept language. Will cause ooo much strain on the backend. See first part of comment 1.

Closing as WONTFIX.

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