On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Gerard
Meijssen<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Changing the messages in this way may be good from a performance perspective
it really hurts the usability of our messages. Messages are localised at
translatewiki.net and this is where we do require these messages. When
messages are to have hardcoded strings as you propose you defeat the
objectives of using a set of messages that are universally usable.
In my opinion your proposal has really nasty side effects so my question is
how you want to ensure that we are not working cross purposes.
Thanks,
GerardM
Yes, but once the wiki has the base message and they've customized it, there's
certainly an incentive to using the string instead of the magic word.
-Chad