Thread:Support/Messages customization statistics/reply

These may be modifications that admins were waiting for too long. Best make them aware, I'd suggest.
 * ''Messages are often modified, even thought the wording is identical. These can probably be deleted in the project, because otherwise they won't be updated when they are updated in the software.

Probably worth investigating. May happen with translations made here, too, since adding/deleting a colon often does not lead to fuzzying. So it may be that errs.
 * ''Modified messages often differ very little from the original. For example, the original may have a period or a colon in the end, and the modified messages doesn't ...

I think, it is worth thinking this over. Rotem Liss, Gangleri, me, and possibly others had been proposing this already before begun as betawiki, but it has been deemed "too expensive" by other developers. I am currently contemplating a kind of offline MessageXzz.php file preprocessor or converter, that may be able to make such changes as well - a kind of prompted general search and replace operation. This may become increasingly impractical, to moer messages are amended or added over time, and the more extensions are being used in a wiki. So I am not really happy with this kind of approach.
 * ''For example, in en.wp "content page" is replaced with "article" ..., so maybe this could be parametrized.

Imho, this is a typical toolserver project, and it is not hard to make at least a simple working prototype. If I had the time atm, I'd give it a try, but there are likely more ones who can do that, too. Maybe, you wanna try the toolserver mailing list ?
 * ''Can anyone create statistics of modified messages ...