Hi,
In the long-term, wouldn't it be smarter to make
some of these stable
and quasi-stable tokens automatically cache in their evaluated state?
We already do, we cache such simplified messages in Mediawiki:
namespace.
For something like {{SITENAME}} there is little reason
to be looking
it up every single time the message loads, so why not teach Mediawiki
to pre-evaluate that and similar items before putting it in the
message cache?
There is little reason to keep {{SITENAME}} in Mediawiki: namespace
too :)
Generally, this could be handled by simple bot.
Do note, we end up with other messages, where people want to use
singular/plural for e.g. 'Categories'.
For the rare case that such things do change
you'd
need to make sure that the cache does get rebuilt periodically (or
have someway to detect such changes and deliberately refresh the
cache), but such changes are so rare that adding some lag on update
might be acceptable.
Well, Mediawiki: is such cache :) We don't need to change our code at
all then :)
Domas