[Mediawiki-api] adding action=getmsg

[Andrew Dunbar]

2009/5/6 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> El 5/5/09 10:57 PM, Chad escribió:
>>> On that note and similar, I had been thinking about just this
>>> same issue recently.
>>>
>>> Rather than a new API module (which would be redundant,
>>> as Roan points out), what if we added some new Ajax
>>> functions? Then JS has access to messages, but we're not
>>> relying on custom Http requests to the API to get them.
>>
>> What do you mean by "new Ajax functions"? If you mean the godawful sajax
>> interface, then it should die and be buried and forgotten.
>>
>> -- brion
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> Whatever the interface, I was more interested in the end result:
> ability to get localized messages via JS, and without having to
> request them by hand from the API.

I have some Ajax functions to emulate getMsg and a couple of
variants. But it's from before API.php and needed two calls
for some things:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Hippietrail/wfMsgCentre.js

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)


> -Chad
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