Simetrical wrote: [snip]
Also, currently there would be serious problems if you wanted to include the string "special:" in any of the descriptive text, it looks like. Using message keys means this isn't a problem, unless you have "special:" in the message key (which is technically not prohibited, but not conventional and certainly never useful).
There are other problems with using a message altogether, though.
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I've reverted this, as I too find it rather fragile and unmaintainable.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)