Bumped by Community localization issue

Question

Recently a banner, "Bumped to the homepage by Community", was created in the current form:

bumped to the homepage by $community$ $when$

It leads localization problem (e.g. in Russian):

The current localized message looks like this:

because variable $community$ unfolds into "Community ♦". In case of Stack Overflow in Russian it should unfold into "Дух сообщества ♦".

My request is to modify the original string to:

bumped to the homepage by $RefBegin$Community ♦$RefEnd$ $when$

so that it would be possible to translate it according to the localized name of the Community ♦ user.

@Cai yes. You can see Community user profile in es or pt SO. — αλεχολυτ, Commented Dec 17, 2016 at 14:36
What's weird is that it's called "Community" on Meta Spanish SO and both of the Japanese versions (they plan to translate the rest of the meta profile text however). — Laurel, Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 19:59
HAH! You can't fool me! Those are PHP variables! Admit your shame! — user1228, Commented Dec 19, 2016 at 16:06

Oded · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-19 13:14:36Z

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I used a hard-coded version of the community user display name - I have now updated the code to use the correct, localized version.

With you in the next build.

answered Dec 19, 2016 at 13:14

OdedStaffMod

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Using only one form of community user's name is not flexible. E.g. in Russian language we have many cases of name according grammatic rules. So allow translator to decide would be a better variant.
– αλεχολυτ
Commented Dec 20, 2016 at 9:22

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