On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks OK to me - I understand that the automatic updates are not the actual > news here and it would be great to find ways to explain the importance of > the change to JSON more clearly, e.g. using Siebrand's comment "probably the > largest patch set for MediaWiki ever" > (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-April/075587.html ), > but that's not contained in the blog post itself, and otherwise I don't see > a good option to do that in 140c. Post away ;)
Amir has written a follow-up post on the actual transition from PHP to JSON. Proposed postings: MediaWiki localization JSON files blog post (from @wikimedia, reshared by @wikipedia and @mediawiki ): * t: Wikimedia Language engineer @aharoni explains why and how @MediaWiki's localization file format was changed to JSON: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/mediawiki-localization-file-format-changed-from-php-to-json/ * f/g: In this follow-up to last week's announcement about LocalisationUpdate, Wikimedia Language engineer Amir Aharoni why +MediaWiki's localization file format was changed to JSON, and how it required a concerted effort by many MediaWiki developers. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/mediawiki-localization-file-format-changed-from-php-to-json/ -- Guillaume Paumier _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media
