https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11267

--- Comment #11 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> 
2010-07-26 06:01:10 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Well, there are some local messages used on some wikis, which are not part of
> MediaWiki core or its extensions, so such fallback is not nonsense in general,
> however those are rare cases.

Well, there is a fallback for missing messages: <messagename>
This assures, no message goes undisplayed, even if <messagename> may be not
functioning is some very special contexts, and for those "messages" of a more
technical nature, that are not plainly displayed or sent out as e-mails.

Btw:
One of the disadvantages of our current language (and fallback) treatment is,
we cannot choose to have this fallback. Being able to ?uselang=und (undefined)
or ?uselang=zxx (no linguistic content) would imho be a great help to
localizers who happen to stumble over messages having typing errors, or not
translated optimally regarding context. Redisplaing a wiki page with messages
replaced by <messagename> usually tells you at once, which message to amend.
Currently, localizers have to find messages via text searches in the message
contents, which is cumbersome for text made up from several messages, and at
least is quite time consuming.

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