On 24 September 2010 20:00, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 9/24/10 12:49 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote:
You are going to have problems with messages like sidebar, mainpage and others excepting certain kind of input.
Oh, I see what you're saying now. You mean how MediaWiki abuses the message database for things which are more like configuration, e.g. MediaWiki:Sidebar.
Hm. I'm not sure how to fix that at all. Other than somehow cataloging all the message strings that are used like that.
Come to think of it, what do we do to ensure that these messages are not translated? Or does that not matter since such messages originate in a different place?
Some of them are translated (maybe just partially), some may be translated and some are not available for translation in translatewiki.net. See maintenance/language/messageTypes.inc for optional and ignored messages respectively. Unfortunately the criterion for those tags is exactly the same what we would need for this use case.
-Niklas