Hello,
That's not the point. If a message is customized
by replacing
{{SITENAME}} with Wikipedia, updates to *that message* (not to the
site name) from TranslateWiki (or changes to the message in
MessagesEn.php , in the case of English) will not get through because
the local customization containing the old version overrides it.
I understand that. That is the point, once it is overridden, it
doesn't reintroduce faulty behaviors.
That is so sad - considering the amount of updates that go to those
core messages constantly... ;-)
I think both tagline and pagetitle and others will suffer greatly from
this. And 'About' message really needs constant updating too :)
Seriously, folks, you're enjoying the theory of localization so much,
that you forget that there's actual practice out there.
Domas