On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Siebrand Mazeland
<siebrand(a)kitano.nl
wrote:
probably
the largest patch set for MediaWiki ever
(+548314, -714438), MediaWiki
core
is now using JSON for localisation of interface
messages, per a recently
adopted RfC[1]. Thanks Krinkle/Timo for reviewing!
Congratulations on getting this done! [..] you
know you've hit the big time when the discussion about the feature can
expand to the weighty and architecturally-significant topic of tabs versus
spaces. :-)
:-)
What's next? With this project almost completed, next order of business is
creating an RfC on where to go with the data that
now remains in the
MessagesXx.php files (like date formatting, fallback, directionality,
namespace names, special page names, etc.) and localisation for special
page names, magic words and namespace names that are still being
implemented using $wgExtensionMessagesDirs. Maybe this is something we
could discuss and prototype during the hackathon. Please let me know if
this is something you'd like to work on.
I'm looking forward to seeing progress on this. Any initial
ideas/biases/etc on this?
The only thing we've very briefly entertained is adding more @metadata keys
to stuff "things" as associative arrays. James Forrester visualised that
2013-12-12 in the referred thread. Because it was explicitly out of scope
for the Localisation format RfC, I think we focused on the RfC contents.
Questions:
I. If the format that James proposed adequate?
II. Should we extend on the existing RfC or create a new one?
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Requests_for_comment/Localisatio…
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