Author: dbenbenn
Description:
On the Commons, {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} displays with a comma as the numeric
separator: 29,949. That's fine for English, but Spanish wants to use . and
other languages might use other separators. MediaWiki currently has a very
inflexible support for different separators in a few cases. For example,
[[MediaWiki:Sitestatstext]] takes variable $2 which is NUMBEROFARTICLES with the
localized separator.
A more flexible solution would be if {{NUMBEROFARTICLES|.}} did the obvious
thing (the variable acts like a template, and uses the first argument as the
separator). Then we could localize that number in places that MediaWiki hasn't
thought of, for example the Spanish version of the Main Page, [[Commons:Portada]].
Obviously the same issue applies to all other numeric variables.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor