Hoi,
Centralised localisation works when the resulting localised messages are
usable and useful in all environments. More exceptions to this rule make it
seem as if central localisation is not a good idea. There is already one
acknowledged exception to the rule; messages that inform about the policies
of a local wiki, there is now a second category and they are messages that
have parameters like the system name.
While I appreciate Domas' search for more performance, I am equally of the
opinion that there are other factors to consider. Siebrand wrote that HE is
aware of this. This is nice but we support other projects that run MediaWiki
and our support should allow for THEY are aware of this. There is also a
constant flow of new localised messages and these can include the list of
messages that has been shown earlier in this thread. I can imagine that we
have some functionality that is part of the update.php that updates these
values in the plain vanilla messages.
What I am looking for is proper support. The least is proper documentation
and it can be expanded to a procedure that allows other wikis to benefit
from the knowledge we have gained. My overriding concern is that our
language support is not sacrificed at the cost of a few cycles. Even when
there are a lot of them.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/8/31 Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org>
>
> On 31/08/2009, at 9:27 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > There are two opposing objectives at play. Performance is one and
> > quality
> > localisation for MediaWiki in all our projects is the second. Just
> > stating
> > that performance trumps our localisation is also very much a nono.
> >
> > These are consequences and they have to be considered. Just breaking
> > the way
> > our localisation works in this way is at least equally unacceptable
> > as poor
> > performance is.
>
> You haven't explained exactly what impact this will have on
> localisation. Perhaps providing concrete disadvantages instead of
> vague topic areas will make your argument more convincing.
>
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