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Do not override additions in mediawiki extension export
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I've seen Raymond reverting l10n updates many times because the remove recently added English messages. This should be avoided.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:38 AM
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This should be part of requirements when we start discussing repository handling rewrite, see for example https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Topics#Translate_extension_workshop

Nikerabbit renamed this task from [TWN] Do not override additions in mediawiki extension export to Do not override additions in mediawiki extension export.Jan 28 2015, 5:46 PM
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The counterpart of this is that we should export deletions, i.e. exporting a group where a translation's page has been deleted should also remove the translation from the l10n files. (We don't seem to have a report for this, only for page translation and deleted translation units.)

Change 394864 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nikerabbit; owner: Nikerabbit):
[translatewiki@master] Add rudimentary state synchronization

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/394864

Change 394864 merged by jenkins-bot:
[translatewiki@master] Add rudimentary state synchronization

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/394864