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Don't internationalize parser functions
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Author: zocky

Description:
Internationalization of parser functions is not really necessary - they should
be considered part of wiki syntax, and they are for advanced users anyway.

In addition to that, it causes problems - if functions have different names in
different languages, and even fall back to English for some extra uncertainty,
maintaining a sane collection of parser functin extensions becomes a nightmare.
At least the current implementation also makes extensions more difficult to
write and read.

What's even worse, having different names for parser functions for different
languages makes moving templates from one language to another an even more
complex task than it already is. And if a website really needs it, it can simply
make wrapper templates for the purpose, thus getting localized parser functions
without breaking the builtin ones. ~~~~


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bz6699

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:21 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz6699.
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Essay from anonymous email account.

ayg wrote:

[[User:Zocky]] is a reasonably well-known admin on the English Wikipedia. Dunno
if this is him (very likely) or an impostor/coincidence (unlikely), but the
source of a bug report is kind of irrelevant to whether we should fix it anyway,
isn't it?