https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30245
Krinkle <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | --- Comment #8 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2011-09-21 23:08:21 UTC --- Ahm, some discussion beforehand would've been nice. I recommended WONTFIX in comment 3 because; 1) This system is going to be replaced in a not too far away future with push notifications. 2) Is almost only used by bots, which don't care about i18n 3) Changing this will break an insane amount of bots that have to be fixed by making an API to resolve this localized names into what they really are (making an API request may seem easy, but for some of the applications that use this, it would require lot of work to get an http request going at all). We're not talking about breaking extensions that we can easily fix in subversion or can give instructions to developers via a mailing lists. This would break many counter-vandalism workflows that imho would hurt the foundation projects. Many of these tools, sadly, are unmaintained and fragile. It's not a very good excuse, sure blame the users, but this is the current reality and until it gets better we shouldn't ignore it. As an example, the color encoding of the IRC log line (ie. orange for pagename, green for username etc.) has a few bugs in it (iiirc, it closes a color that wasn't opened somewhere and leaves one unclosed). That bug wasn't fixed either because there is no gain (it just looks better when looking at the source code) and many tools depend on how this string is currently built up, it's a very wide-spread regex. I get that i18n is importnat, but the gain here is very little and the amount of effort required to fix the 100s of tools all over the place is just not worth it, if at all possible. There is already too few time invested in proper uniform and centralized patrolling, let's not make it worse for something minor like this. The on-wiki things on SpecialRecentChanges are localized already. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
