On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Siebrand Mazeland <siebrand(a)kitano.nl>wrote;wrote:
With the merging of
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/122787/ , probably
the largest patch set for MediaWiki ever (+548314, -714438), MediaWiki core
is now using JSON for localisation of interface messages, per a recently
adopted RfC[1]. Thanks Krinkle/Timo for reviewing!
Congratulations on getting this done! This is a big deal, having long made
MediaWiki flexible enough to handle many human languages, this is now a
huge help for developers using different programming languages. And you
know you've hit the big time when the discussion about the feature can
expand to the weighty and architecturally-significant topic of tabs versus
spaces. :-)
What's next? With this project almost completed, next order of business is
creating an RfC on where to go with the data that now
remains in the
MessagesXx.php files (like date formatting, fallback, directionality,
namespace names, special page names, etc.) and localisation for special
page names, magic words and namespace names that are still being
implemented using $wgExtensionMessagesDirs. Maybe this is something we
could discuss and prototype during the hackathon. Please let me know if
this is something you'd like to work on.
I'm looking forward to seeing progress on this. Any initial
ideas/biases/etc on this?
Rob