User "Jack Phoenix" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r99364.
Full URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/99364#c24216
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:
:''But is has to shown the message doc in translatewiki.net for proper
translations.''
I'm just wondering '''why''' is it so unreasonable for a developer to assume
that translators will take the time to read a page or two on MediaWiki.org to
find out what kind of a thing they're translating.
:''I can remove all "your" extensions from translatewiki if that is what you
want.''
I think that wouldn't be the best solution, considering things from the
end-user's point of view, but you'll do what you must.
:''There is not inherently any site specific in them''
We don't bundle templates (i.e. <nowiki>{{desc}}</nowiki> and friends) with
core, so I'd say that is site-specific enough.
:''Opting out does not help if nobody writes them in the first place.''
I'm willing to document the extensions which I've helped to write, [[Nimbus
skin#Internationalization|as]] [[Extension:VoteNY#Internationalization|I've]]
[[Extension:RefreshSpecial#System messages|done]] in the past; I'm OK with
copying whatever I've written over to TWN (or any other wiki, for that matter),
I just don't want to see that stuff in the .i18n.php file. :)
If I may suggest, I'd like to propose that we continue this discussion on
wikitech-l, because that way it might reach a wider audience and this
conversation is no longer directly related to this revision — the
complaint about the lack of message documentation ''has'' been adressed.
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