https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52432
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 52432
Summary: Registering an empty or nonexistent messages file
breaks the messages cache seemingly indefinitely
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Internationalization
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
Steps to reproduce:
1. Pick your favourite extension to break - I like Extension:UploadWizard
2. Change the name of its messages file in the extension's main PHP file -
something like "$wgExtensionMessagesFiles['UploadWizard'] =
'LolUploadWizard.i18n.php';", but *do not* create that file.
3. Load a page that uses the message(s) in that message file - like
Special:UploadWizard
4. Note the error. Expected behaviour.
5. Copy the actual messages file to the filename you made up, e.g. "cp
UploadWizard.i18n.php LolUploadWizard.i18n.php"
6. Reload the page from step 3 - note that the error is gone, but no messages
load
7. Refresh as much as you'd like. Rebuild the message and l10n caches if you
want. Hilariously ineffective.
8. Change the name back in the PHP file and refresh the page. Tada. You could
alternatively change it to a different nonexistent filename, refresh the page
once, and then change it back to a proper name, and refresh it again. The
change of filename causes the refresh.
This is probably some overly clever feature that I'm misreading, but it means
that if I forget to create an i18n file at first, I'll mysteriously not have
messages load on the site. Which causes a bit of confusion. Some better
handling somewhere might be good.
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