UI messages can now be blank, this is now considered to be different to missing. Unless there are strenuous objections, it will stay that way, I think it makes more sense than those ugly workarounds.
There were a few transient bugs over the last 24 hours related to this, some messages erroneously showed up as blank when they were in fact missing. This should be fixed now (thanks to Brion for helping with this).
I also improved the cache a bit.
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling wrote:
UI messages can now be blank, this is now considered to be different to missing. Unless there are strenuous objections, it will stay that way, I think it makes more sense than those ugly workarounds.
Yay!
There were a few transient bugs over the last 24 hours related to this, some messages erroneously showed up as blank when they were in fact missing. This should be fixed now (thanks to Brion for helping with this).
600+ wikis * 100+ languages * a lot of messages comes out to a *lot* of memcached deletes to make sure everything's scrubbed, so it's actually not done yet. :)
Most of the biggest wikis should already be taken care of though, and the rest should be all double-checked within a few hours.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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