On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Looks OK to me - I understand that the automatic
updates are not the actual
news here and it would be great to find ways to explain the importance of
the change to JSON more clearly, e.g. using Siebrand's comment "probably the
largest patch set for MediaWiki ever"
(
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-April/075587.html ),
but that's not contained in the blog post itself, and otherwise I don't see
a good option to do that in 140c. Post away ;)
Amir has written a follow-up post on the actual transition from PHP to
JSON. Proposed postings:
MediaWiki localization JSON files blog post (from @wikimedia, reshared
by @wikipedia and @mediawiki ):
* t: Wikimedia Language engineer @aharoni explains why and how
@MediaWiki's localization file format was changed to JSON:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/mediawiki-localization-file-format-ch…
* f/g: In this follow-up to last week's announcement about
LocalisationUpdate, Wikimedia Language engineer Amir Aharoni why
+MediaWiki's localization file format was changed to JSON, and how it
required a concerted effort by many MediaWiki developers.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/04/10/mediawiki-localization-file-format-ch…
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Guillaume Paumier