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Bug 15762 - Avoid lengthy repetitions in series of system messages.
Avoid lengthy repetitions in series of system messages.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-09-29 09:43 UTC by Purodha Blissenbach
Modified: 2008-12-18 12:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Purodha Blissenbach 2008-09-29 09:43:00 UTC
In the new messages MediaWiki:Userrestricted-* , there is a series of almost identical messages differing only in line 1 (of 8). Similar situations exist elsewhere.

IMHO, both maintenance, and translations, would gain from splitting such messages, i.e. putting the constant part in an extra message. Of course that should not be done when there might be reasons to assume that, depending on language, localized versions will need to have differing pieces where the English originals have 100% identical texts. In the case mentioned, this is most likely not so.

This is not a real bug, rather a general suggestion to follow. (E.g., I am not asking to alter such messages now, once they exist.) The cause for me to report it here is mainly that I have not found a better way to collectively address those who it may concern.

Thank you.
Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2008-10-26 15:58:22 UTC
In general we want to have too much repetition instead of too little. The proper way to "fix" it would of course be translation memories. Splitting may have other advantages, like easier customisation, but that point is not very strong. No idea about this particular case, maybe some should paste the messages up for discussion.

Bugzilla is not a good place to suggest developing guidelines, so this bug should probably produce some documentation somewhere, if such guideline were to be accepted.

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