Nick Pisarro wrote:
Based on the unstable branch, the article
"MediaWiki:All_messages", used
for maintaining msg values is an interesting idea, but I believe this
would be better built as a dynamically built page, i.e. as
"special:all_messages", rather than as a static page in the database.
It seems that the title of [[MediaWiki:All messages]] is misleading,
because it actually displays only the messages used by the software, not
those inserted by users. (And, quite frankly, I don't think it should;
[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages]] is already a huge mess, and
desperately needs splitting up.)
A Special page would either
(1) have a hardcoded list of messages to display (which would then need
to be updated whenever a new message is introduced into the
software; admittedly, this would be easier than updating
[[MediaWiki:All messages]]; or
(2) display *everything* in the MediaWiki namespace, which (as described
above) would be horrendous.
Timwi