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Some SearchVUE messages say "article" instead of "page"
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Description

Some SearchVUE messages say "article" instead of "page".

The word "article" is used on Wikipedia, because its main namespaces pages are encyclopedic articles. For other wikis, the generic word "page" is used instead, and it can be changed locally to something else.

If this extension is intended specifically only for Wikipedia, then it's OK to leave things as they are and close this bug as "declined".

However, if this extension is intended also for other wikis, like Commons, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, etc., then it must be changed, because pages on those wikis are not articles.

I can suggest several solutions:

  1. Use page in all the messages and allow the Wikipedia communities to change it locally to "article". That's what usually done. Not perfect, but good enough.
  2. Make two messages, one with "page" and one with "article", and make a configuration variable that uses the "article" messages on sites where it's enabled (which would be Wikipedia).

Other suggestions are welcome.

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matthiasmullie subscribed.

This extension is intended specifically for Wikipedia, and using "article" instead of "page" was a conscious design decision. See T317950 for more backstory.

I declined, because it is (currently) out of scope. We can revisit if/once this extension were to get deployed on other projects.