I'd suggest summarising the conversation so far and documenting a proposed best practice at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_best_practices
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Andre Klapper aklapper@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 08:51 +0200, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Will it possible to split it to two messages: One natural, when there's
no
truncation, and one when you have to truncate. Or is the truncation completely automatic and you cannot know when it is truncated?
If it's completely automatic and there's no way to have two phrases,
you'll
probably have to separate the "editing" part to a separate message and explain it in qqq.
Are there technical reasons why using an ellipsis like "Long article name which will be trunca... editing" would not work?
andre
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