On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Thank you for the hyperbole.. Your representation insinuates that our systems will crash unless this change is implemented. Fact is that currently our messages are parsed. Thanks, GerardM
2009/8/31 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
There are two opposing objectives at play. Performance is one and quality localisation for MediaWiki in all our projects is the second. Just
stating
that performance trumps our localisation is also very much a nono.
These are consequences and they have to be considered. Just breaking the
way
our localisation works in this way is at least equally unacceptable as
poor
performance is.
Slightly more burdensome localization makes the localizers' lives a bit more difficult. Running out of CPU means the site will crash. So, no, I don't think so. Of course, it would be nice if someone came up with a solution that everyone was happy with, but until then, performance *is* more important than localization convenience.
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In the WMF environment, I know a lot of instances of {{SITENAME}} have been changed to strings on a lot of the larger wikis. For the WMF, this is a good performance gain with little drawback to the users. Their sitename isn't changing anytime soon, so it doesn't really matter to use {{SITENAME}} or not.
For individual wikis elsewhere, {{SITENAME}} may be of greater benefit. This doesn't hold true for the WMF though, and that's what Domas is talking about.
-Chad