Sorry I'm not very familiar with mail-list. Now I post the diff to my wiki page. Sorry if I have flooded this list.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PhiLiP/interfaceproposal.diff

2010/11/29 Philip Tzou philip.npc@gmail.com

If you can't download the diff attachment, here it is:

Index: includes/MessageCache.php

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=================================================================== --- includes/MessageCache.php (版本 77398) +++ includes/MessageCache.php (工作副本) @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ throw new MWException( "Bad lang code $langcode given" ); }

•    $langcode = $lang->getCode();
  

•    $langcode = $lang->getCodeForMessage();
  
     $message = false;
  
  

Index: languages/Language.php

--- languages/Language.php (版本 77398) +++ languages/Language.php (工作副本) @@ -1545,11 +1545,11 @@ }

 function getMessage( $key ) {

•    return self::$dataCache->getSubitem( $this->mCode, 'messages',
  

$key );

•    return self::$dataCache->getSubitem( $this->mCodeForMessage,
  

'messages', $key ); }

 function getAllMessages() {

•    return self::$dataCache->getItem( $this->mCode, 'messages' );
  

•    return self::$dataCache->getItem( $this->mCodeForMessage,
  

'messages' ); }

 function iconv( $in, $out, $string ) {

@@ -2764,6 +2764,26 @@ function getCode() { return $this->mCode; }

• /**

• * Get langcode for message
  

• * Some language, like Chinese (zh, without any suffix), has multiple
  

• * interface languages, we could choose a better one for user.
  

• *
  

• * @return string
  

• */
  

• function getCodeForMessage() {

•    // cache the result
  

•    if ( !isset( $this->mCodeForMessage ) ) {
  

•        if ( $this->hasVariants() ) {
  

•            return $this->mCodeForMessage =
  

$this->getPreferredVariant();

•        } else {
  

•            return $this->mCodeForMessage = $this->mCode;
  

•        }
  

•    } else {
  

•        return $this->mCodeForMessage;
  

•    }
  

• }

  function setCode( $code ) { $this->mCode = $code;

2010/11/29 Philip Tzou philip.npc@gmail.com

We had confused "uselang" and "variant" for a long time until the releasing

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of 1.16. But the distinction has introduced new problems to variants-enabled language wiki. Now we can not convert the interface text even under the main code (like *zh* for Chinese wiki). I plan to commit a patch to Language.php and MessageCache.php but I'm not completely sure whether it would affect on MediaWiki's message cache. Can somebody known message cache better than me takes a "previous review" before I committed?

Philip Tzou