https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63327
--- Comment #1 from Merlijn van Deen <valhallasw(a)arctus.nl> ---
One of the reasons we are using the current file format is the structure: in
pywikibot, the typical use case is 'getting a few strings from a lot of
languages', while the general use case (e.g. for mediawiki) is 'getting a lot
of strings from a single language'.
On tools-login, parsing all mediawiki's json files takes 3-5 seconds. For many
bot users, this might be a lot longer (slower computer, slower hard drive),
which (I think) is not reasonable.
Switching to a json-based format with the same file structure would be OK with
me.
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