This is epic. Thanks a bunch Siebrand! On 1 Apr 2014 15:10, "Siebrand Mazeland" <siebr...@kitano.nl> wrote:
> Long! tl;dr is in the first two paragraphs. > > With the merging of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/122787/ , probably > the largest patch set for MediaWiki ever (+548314, -714438), MediaWiki core > is now using JSON for localisation of interface messages, per a recently > adopted RfC[1]. Thanks Krinkle/Timo for reviewing! > > Please be aware that if you have open patch sets touching *.i18n.php > messages files or MessagesXx.php files, you will have to update your patch > sets to match the new file layout and format. > > In December 2013, the first MediaWiki extensions have already been migrated > to use the JSON format. Today, Antoine/hashar enabled a JSON linter on the > jslint job that runs on many Gerrit repositories' patch sets. > > Since last week I've started to migrate first all MediaWiki extensions that > are used by WIkimedia to use JSON i18n. At this time, 1.23wmf20 has about > 50% of its extensions using the updated format. Migration of two extensions > is taking a little longer[2], but Matt Flaschen is helping with that, and I > expect that to be resolved soon. > > Migration of all extensions has been going very smoothly - it's about 80% > done. With the help of reedy/Sam Reed, Raimond Spekking/Raymond, Niklas > Laxström/Nikerabbit and Adam Wight, so far 427 patch sets related to this > project have already been reviewed and merged[3], 40 await review and I > expect some 90 more to be submitted for the project to be completed. > > Thanks also go to Roan Kattouw/Catrope for implementation of parts of the > RfC together with Niklas, to Niklas for rewriting LocalisationUpdate to > support the JSON format and more, and all who helped draft the RfC, > including James Forrester, Santhosh Thottingal, David Chan, Ed Sanders, > Robert Thomas Moen, and those who deserve credit but I have forgotten to > mention. > > Once all migrations are complete, I'll be doing a full export from > translatewiki.net, which will cause a lot of JSON files to be touched, but > will mostly update encoding (full UTF-8) and add a newline at enf of file > where missing. > > What's next? With this project almost completed, next order of business is > creating an RfC on where to go with the data that now remains in the > MessagesXx.php files (like date formatting, fallback, directionality, > namespace names, special page names, etc.) and localisation for special > page names, magic words and namespace names that are still being > implemented using $wgExtensionMessagesDirs. Maybe this is something we > could discuss and prototype during the hackathon. Please let me know if > this is something you'd like to work on. > > Again, thanks for the help, and apologies for the inconvenience these > changes may have caused you! > > [1] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Localisation_format > [2] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+topic:json-i18n-special,n,z > [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:merged+topic:json-i18n,n,z > > Cheers! > > -- > Siebrand Mazeland > Kitano ICT > > M: +31 6 50 69 1239 > Skype: siebrand > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
