On 01/25/2013 08:01 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
- When using system messages to translate the error codes from the API, these
messages will often contain wikitext. How can we best avoid this? Wikitext is likely to be quite useless to the client - it would be better to return HTML; or pass all the message keys and parameters, and let the client generate the message.
It you take the approach of clients rendering wikitext into HTML, you can use jqueryMsg (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#mediawiki.jqueryMsg)
Of course, non MediaWiki clients will have to use the error code or some other string.
Matt Flaschen