MediaWiki messages sometimes have HTML tags. This is especially true for apihelp messages. These HTML tags are usually unchanged in the translation, and even if the content of the tag is changed, it would be comfortable to have them clickable (especially in RTL).
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Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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Use HTML tags as insertables for MediaWiki messages | mediawiki/extensions/Translate | master | +7 -0 |
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I just added definition to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Glossary
These live in the translatewiki repository along with the project configuration.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Insertables has more info.
@Amire80: Do you plan to mentor this in GCI (as you added that tag)? If so, please add yourself as a mentor. Thanks!
Change 329134 had a related patch set uploaded (by Phantom42):
Use HTML tags as insertables for MediaWiki messages
Change 329134 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use HTML tags as insertables for MediaWiki messages
Somewhat belatedly, I wanted to express my appreciation for this patch.
I'm now using this functionality regularly as a translator, and I also found a but thanks to it, which I just fixed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/338964/ . It's a very small bug, but I'm sure I'll find this functionality helpful again in the future.
Thank you.