On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/30/10 12:26 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: >> From: Trevor Parscal >> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:47 PM >> >> [..] but switching to _ from - might start being popular anyways so a switch >> over >> might be something we could consider. >> >> [sm] personally I very much prefer "-" over "_" in message keys, as the >> underscore is ambiguous in a MediaWiki: pagename context. Furthermore having >> a huge rename operation of keys just because we want to change the i18n >> implementation does not sound like a useful activity... >> >> Siebrand >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > Fair enough with the point on MediaWiki: page name context. Do you have > any other thoughts about the idea? > > - Trevor > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
I'd like to chime in here saying I agree with using - over _. We try to stick to - consistently, and the coding guide suggests using it over _. Going the opposite direction will just confuse people :) I'd actually like to see us rename all of the message keys (in core at least) from having _ to -. I agree that it will be disruptive, but if we do it in the span of one release (and provide a maintenance script to update page titles), it would be far less disruptive than trying to do it over time. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
