Hi! > 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.
I'm suggesting doing that just on our wikis. Mediawiki users can have whatever expensive logic, I don't care that much :-) > 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. Using {{ on common messages is no-go on major wikimedia wikis. Again, people can do whatever transformations they want at any level, except final mediawiki message logic that is on our site. BR, Domas _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l