Domas Mituzas wrote:
>> 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.
The point is, then it won't get automatically updates from translatewiki.
I don't support having a different syntax for mediawiki messages, but
{{SITENAME}} can get susbstituted with a simple preg_replace (a
str_replace if we know there won't be tags).
> Do note, we end up with other messages, where people want to use
> singular/plural for e.g. 'Categories'.
plural can be treated the same way.
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