On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 3/30/10 12:26 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
From: Trevor Parscal Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:47 PM
[..] but switching to _ from - might start being popular anyways so a switch over might be something we could consider.
[sm] personally I very much prefer "-" over "_" in message keys, as the underscore is ambiguous in a MediaWiki: pagename context. Furthermore having a huge rename operation of keys just because we want to change the i18n implementation does not sound like a useful activity...
Siebrand
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Fair enough with the point on MediaWiki: page name context. Do you have any other thoughts about the idea?
- Trevor
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I'd like to chime in here saying I agree with using - over _. We try to stick to - consistently, and the coding guide suggests using it over _. Going the opposite direction will just confuse people :)
I'd actually like to see us rename all of the message keys (in core at least) from having _ to -. I agree that it will be disruptive, but if we do it in the span of one release (and provide a maintenance script to update page titles), it would be far less disruptive than trying to do it over time.
-Chad