On 18 September 2011 17:38, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
While reading a bug pointed by the i18n triage
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16026>, Happy-melon says
"A more general bug (which might well exist, I didn't check thoroughly)
would be "ALL MediaWiki messages should be either plaintext or accept
wikimarkup."
So I had the idea of censusing the wfMsg calls in the MW code and try to
detect which ones accept wikimarkup or other dialects (it depends of the
wfMsg function and of the parameters of that function). So I wrote
yesterday a Python script to census the wfMsg calls in one side and the
messages in another side. The latter is not very useful in fact but the
former gives some interesting results.
I’ve done some statistics about the wfMsg calls on
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WfMsg_statistics>. There are also the raw
data and the link to the script (output to CSV).
You should also include ->addWikiMsg ->wrapWikiMsg and perhaps
->addWikiMsgArray since they are the third major group of message
functions after wfMsg* and wfMessage.
In the most used messages is 'nbbytes', is that typo from nbytes?
We can see that wfMsgWikiHtml is the first of wfMsg* functions that is
nicely getting phased out, just as we want to.
-Niklas
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Niklas Laxström