On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Gerard Meijssen<gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > Changing the messages in this way may be good from a performance perspective > it really hurts the usability of our messages. Messages are localised at > translatewiki.net and this is where we do require these messages. When > messages are to have hardcoded strings as you propose you defeat the > objectives of using a set of messages that are universally usable. > > In my opinion your proposal has really nasty side effects so my question is > how you want to ensure that we are not working cross purposes. > Thanks, > GerardM >
Yes, but once the wiki has the base message and they've customized it, there's certainly an incentive to using the string instead of the magic word. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
