On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Siebrand Mazeland <siebr...@kitano.nl>wrote:
> 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! > Congratulations on getting this done! This is a big deal, having long made MediaWiki flexible enough to handle many human languages, this is now a huge help for developers using different programming languages. And you know you've hit the big time when the discussion about the feature can expand to the weighty and architecturally-significant topic of tabs versus spaces. :-) 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. > I'm looking forward to seeing progress on this. Any initial ideas/biases/etc on this? Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
