Move namespace translations to JSON
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	Feb 19 2015, 10:03 AM

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In the same vein as T89948: Move magic word translations to JSON, namespace name i18n in core should be moved out of the Messages*.php files to a JSON format. In the same vein, *.namespaces.php files in extensions should die and be replaced by something in JSON.

Hopefully this will eventually allow namespace names to be translated from translatewiki.net (so long as translators are made aware of the consequences of changing a namespace name - i.e. breaking links on existing MW installations).

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[POC] Support JSON translation directories for core, extensions and skins	mediawiki/core	master	+1 K -15

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Open	None	T11968 Reduce use of global and public variables
Open	None	T159283 Deprecate non-configuration globals
Stalled	None	T220756 Drop support for wgExtensionMessagesFiles
Stalled	None	T220757 Deprecate use of wgExtensionMessagesFiles in favour of wgMessagesDirs and others
Declined	None	T109235 Re-enable Special:AdvancedTranslate on translatewiki.net
Open	None	T42707 Support special page aliases, namespaces and magic word translations of MediaWiki core and extensions in Special:Translate
Open	None	T220759 Provide an alternative to wgExtensionMessagesFiles for non-message i18n
Open	None	T89946 Move namespace translations to JSON

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siebrand created this task.Feb 19 2015, 10:03 AM

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@siebrand: Which software project codebase is about? Please associate a project (e.g. MediaWiki-Internationalization if about MW core). Thanks!

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