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Bug 28997 - Impement branching on wiki directionality inside interface messages.
Impement branching on wiki directionality inside interface messages.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Interface (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: i18n
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Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-05-15 14:14 UTC by Purodha Blissenbach
Modified: 2011-05-16 09:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Purodha Blissenbach 2011-05-15 14:14:17 UTC
There have been recently messages added which are wrong per
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Avoid_references_to_screen_layout_and_positions

It seems that there is a strong desire and an ongoing need to do so.
A possible way to deal with them was a switch on wiki directinality
such as
"This wiki runs {{WIKIDIR:from left to right|from right to left}}."

I personally do not like the idea because when wiki operators choose
to alter the CSS for their wikis, messages using this may get out of
sync, likely without wiki operators being aware of it.

Yet I make this proposal in the expectation that it ends up as WONTfix
which would be a strong ground to avoid these problematic messages in
the future.
Comment 1 Chad H. 2011-05-15 14:17:49 UTC
I'd be firmly in the WONTFIX camp for this one, much preferring to fix such messages as they come up.
Comment 2 Siebrand Mazeland 2011-05-16 09:46:12 UTC
won't fix per comment 1. Please report the issues *individually*. They will be dealt with.
Comment 3 Niklas Laxström 2011-05-16 09:57:52 UTC
I mostly agree. Let's try to use underspecified messages WRT direction as long as possible.

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