User "Jack Phoenix" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r99364.

Full URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/99364#c24085
Commit summary:

adding AJAX Poll extension. JavaScript should be cleaned up (and maybe 
rewritten to use jQuery?) so that we can support ResourceLoader and functions 
in AJAXPoll.php should be moved into a new class instead of them being in the 
global scope.

Comment:

My biggest issue with qqq "messages" is their very presence in the .i18n.php 
files. We don't commit any other site-specific messages into core or extension 
.i18n.php files, so I don't think we should commit TWN-specific stuff.

As a stopgap solution, I'd propose adding a new configuration variable to 
[[Extension:Translate]] and thus to TWN's config, which would allow extensions 
to opt out of certain "translations", in this case, <tt>qqq</tt>. When someone 
from TWN staff exports messages, certain "languages" for certain extensions 
(groups) would be excluded, i.e. [[social tools]] could opt out of <tt>qqq</tt> 
"translations". It's not '''the''' solution for the issue, but it's '''a''' 
solution that could work.

While things have changed quite a lot in 5 years, what 
[http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2006-December/000140.html 
Rob Church wrote back in December 2006] still holds true: "I don't *care* if no 
one translates it. I would *like* people to do so, but '''the software works 
fine without 30 odd language versions'''." (emphasis mine) I would also like to 
point out that the on-wiki documentation written by me, stored on a wiki, has 
worked well for [http://mwmsg.shoutwiki.com/wiki/User:Misiek95 various] 
[http://mwmsg.shoutwiki.com/wiki/User:Jedimca0 different] 
[http://mwmsg.shoutwiki.com/wiki/User:Xd1358 translators] at [[ShoutWiki]].

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