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.org> wrote:
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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