Domas Mituzas wrote:
For something
like {{SITENAME}} there is little reason to be looking
it up every single time the message loads, so why not teach Mediawiki
to pre-evaluate that and similar items before putting it in the
message cache?
There is little reason to keep {{SITENAME}} in Mediawiki: namespace
too :)
Generally, this could be handled by simple bot.
The point is, then it won't get automatically updates from translatewiki.
I don't support having a different syntax for mediawiki messages, but
{{SITENAME}} can get susbstituted with a simple preg_replace (a
str_replace if we know there won't be tags).
Do note, we end up with other messages, where people
want to use
singular/plural for e.g. 'Categories'.
plural can be treated the same way.