Hello everybody,
I'm trying to figure out the best method for internationalization/localization
of MediaWiki Gadgets. There are several approaches implemented in the different
available gadgets, but none of them seem to use MediaWikis client side message
system. I want to use something like
mw.message('my-gadget-some-key').plain();
But this only works with message keys that are available on the client side,
based on the 'messages' field of a server side module definition
($wgResourceModules). The clientside
mw.loader.implement( moduleName, scripts, styles, messages );
has a parameter for a 'messages' config object. But it does not load the
translation texts for the keys automatically. Actually it expects a JavaScript
object that contains keys _and_ values [1]. I've tried whether the values get
overridden when a translation on the MediaWiki-namespace is available, but they
don't seem to. Am I missing something important? Can you recommend a method for
I18N in a gadget?
Just for the record: I've been experimenting with keeping the messages in
subpages ("MediaWiki:Gadget.-/de.js") in JSON format [2] and loading them on
runtime via AJAX [3]. I think this has some beauty because it's close to what
MediaWiki does on the server side. Unfortunately in this case I'll have to
implement a language fallback [4] by myself. Any thoughts or hints?
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Features#Response
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AOsnard%2FGadget-Test%2Fde.js&action=raw&ctype=text%2Fjavascript
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Osnard/Gadget-Test.js
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#mediaviewer/File:MediaWiki_fallback_chains.svg
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