On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@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-changed-from-php-to-json/

* 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-changed-from-php-to-json/

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Guillaume Paumier