On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:39 AM C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Wouldn't "delete all local overrides" (or "all local overrides added since
> 2018-09-27") be a reasonable step to include in migration after the "new
> translatewiki" is turned back on?
>

"Delete all local overrides" would be horrible, you'd lose all local wiki
customizations. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllMessages&prefix=&filter=modified&lang=en&limit=5000
for enwiki's customizations for example (although English might not be
included in the purge), or
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:MediaWiki-Systemnachrichten&prefix=&filter=modified&lang=de&limit=5000
for dewiki's.

"Added since 2018-09-27" would only be marginally better. Old overrides
wouldn't be lost, but you'd still wipe out new overrides that are intended
to actually be overrides rather than workarounds for this issue.

-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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