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Make it easier to find/identify UI messages that are overridden
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Primarily WikimediaMessages, but some other extensions (GlobalBlocking, GrowthExperiments) use MessageCacheFetchOverrides too...

But it'd be useful if there was a way to annotate (CSS/similar) overridden messages (though, ideally local overrides) and make them obvious, at least in a developer UI.

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Reedy triaged this task as Low priority.Apr 29 2024, 4:23 PM
Reedy renamed this task from Make it easier to find messages that are overridden to Make it easier to find/identinfy UI messages that are overridden.Apr 29 2024, 5:03 PM
matmarex renamed this task from Make it easier to find/identinfy UI messages that are overridden to Make it easier to find/identify UI messages that are overridden.Apr 30 2024, 6:16 PM
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I've been doing some cleanup of the core signup code (change 1025832) and I found T214135, which also complains about this problem; then I found your task when looking for some other feature request about it. I think it's a great idea.

Not that long ago, I extended the output of uselang=qqx to display fallback message keys (T300069). I think the same approach could work for the override keys.

Change #1025837 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[mediawiki/core@master] Show overridden message keys when using &uselang=qqx

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1025837

Change #1025837 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Show overridden message keys when using &uselang=qqx

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1025837