https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46579

--- Comment #7 from Matt Walker <[email protected]> ---
When I originally wrote the base patch I had a couple of different ideas for
how this would work. This particular option was chosen, in part, due to the
belief that if the local community had overridden the default message then they
had done so for a reason -- and that reason should be communicated to all users
regardless of locale. This does mean that more messages will have to be updated
-- and that right now that's extremely annoying -- but it doesn't mean it's not
the correct choice.

The one case I find the current behavior especially compelling is if someone
has modified a message to place in warning text/guidelines about
usage/something similar.

The other option I thought would be correct is, if the thought is that locale
specific messaging is more important than community inspired messaging, to
oscillate back and forth between on-wiki and localization cache messages. IE:
look in /pt-br on wiki then in CDB; then /pt on wiki then in CDB; /en on wiki
then in CDB. This would require a bit of meta-data in the CDB saying what
locale the message came from.

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