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3. Publishing wiki sourcecode in wiki and make it

editable

...

just like wikipedia articles.

I don't know if this works but we can try.

Source is fragile enough that I'd be very wary of this.

That, and I

really do want a better editor than Mozilla when working

with code. ;)

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Probably the first step is publishing "language.php"s and probably

sysop

...

applies them.

The current format of those files (a bunch of arrays and a

class

definition in a PHP source file!) is horrible, arcane, and

very very

fragile. (About half the updates I get submitted to me ends

up with a

missing comma, an extra quotation mark, whatever, and hence

syntax

error. And that includes the ones I make myself!)

What we need is a human-friendly interface for editing the

messages,

being able to compare all or selected language versions of

each one

side-by-side. The ability to incrementally and safely

update 99% of this

stuff without waiting for a developer's intervention will

be a big help

for newer language sections being established.

I totally agree with that. Then why don't we employ wiki to improve the sourcecode? Also, I don't know if it will work. Then why don't we try?