On 11/24/06, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Edward Z. Yang wrote:
I did quite a bit of thinking on what you posted
here, and some of it
quite fabulous. I still have a few questions:
- If you had to rename every message in MediaWiki, would you have
enforced a definite naming convention? Namespaced them?
Sure, I would have a naming convention. We've already more or less
standardised on using prefixes for extension messages. Namespaces for core
messages would probably be useful too. My main bugbear with the current
system is punctuation style: Lee used strings of unbroken lowercase letters,
which I think is hard to read. They're always quoted, so why not have spaces
between words? Or underscores, if that's too progressive.
Someone suggested on IRC once that something might break if we use
spaces, because the message names also serve as page names and maybe
whatever creates the pages will expect underscores. I usually use
hyphens, myself . . . I find them less obtrusive and easier to type
than underscores.