Hi,
> In the long-term, wouldn't it be smarter to make some of these stable
> and quasi-stable tokens automatically cache in their evaluated state?
We already do, we cache such simplified messages in Mediawiki:
namespace.
> For something like {{SITENAME}} there is little reason to be looking
> it up every single time the message loads, so why not teach Mediawiki
> to pre-evaluate that and similar items before putting it in the
> message cache?
There is little reason to keep {{SITENAME}} in Mediawiki: namespace
too :)
Generally, this could be handled by simple bot.
Do note, we end up with other messages, where people want to use
singular/plural for e.g. 'Categories'.
> For the rare case that such things do change you'd
> need to make sure that the cache does get rebuilt periodically (or
> have someway to detect such changes and deliberately refresh the
> cache), but such changes are so rare that adding some lag on update
> might be acceptable.
Well, Mediawiki: is such cache :) We don't need to change our code at
all then :)
Domas
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