On 12/16/2014 07:45 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Marc Ordinas i Llopis <
> marc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Due to how MediaWiki's messages system works, changes to the display
>> styles need to be copied into each of the ~300 display languages for users,
>> else those users with different languages will see different reference
>> styles on the same page.
>
>
> That sounds like bug T33216, which was fixed a while ago. Does this
> actually occur now?
Though I'm not completely sure this is the one in question, for quite
some time there has been a known issue[1] with the way MediaWiki's
message fallback chain is implemented. A patch[2] to fix this was posted
for review, and I left some comments on it almost a year ago. There have
been no updates since.
[1]: Multiple reports:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3495
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48579
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50956
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57473
[2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72867/
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