Last modified: 2006-10-01 18:12:14 UTC
Internationalization of parser functions is not really necessary - they should be considered part of wiki syntax, and they are for advanced users anyway. In addition to that, it causes problems - if functions have different names in different languages, and even fall back to English for some extra uncertainty, maintaining a sane collection of parser functin extensions becomes a nightmare. At least the current implementation also makes extensions more difficult to write and read. What's even worse, having different names for parser functions for different languages makes moving templates from one language to another an even more complex task than it already is. And if a website really needs it, it can simply make wrapper templates for the purpose, thus getting localized parser functions without breaking the builtin ones. ~~~~
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[[User:Zocky]] is a reasonably well-known admin on the English Wikipedia. Dunno if this is him (very likely) or an impostor/coincidence (unlikely), but the source of a bug report is kind of irrelevant to whether we should fix it anyway, isn't it?
