On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Changing the messages in this way may be good from a performance perspective it really hurts the usability of our messages. Messages are localised at translatewiki.net and this is where we do require these messages. When messages are to have hardcoded strings as you propose you defeat the objectives of using a set of messages that are universally usable.
In my opinion your proposal has really nasty side effects so my question is how you want to ensure that we are not working cross purposes. Thanks, GerardM
Yes, but once the wiki has the base message and they've customized it, there's certainly an incentive to using the string instead of the magic word.
-Chad