On 2018-09-06 22:33, James Montalvo wrote:
Is it possible to override messages part of MediaWiki
core via an
extension. I tried adding to an extension's en.json file and that didn't
seem to work, but am wondering if there's another way.
Yes, but it's a bit of a hack. You have to define a different message
(under a different key/name), then use the 'MessageCache::get' hook [1]
to make MediaWiki load your message instead of the original one. On
Wikimedia wikis we use this in the WikimediaMessages extension to use a
different wording for some messages [2].
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/MessageCache::get
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EWME/browse/master/WikimediaMes…
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Bartosz Dziewoński