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Our translators need good message documentation to make good translations. Often it is unclear - because out of context - if a message is a noun or a verb, if it is a label or a button text etc etc.

I know that you do not like the qqq section inside the i18n file, but they do not really hurt. Really big extensions like FlaggedRevs withs hundreds of messages works on WMF without any problems with the qqq section. You are free to do your own message documentions on mediawiki.org. Thats great. But TWN needs the message documetation shown up in the translation process directy, not on mw.org.

Images/screenshots can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and included in the message doc. TWN is using InstantCommons for this.

As the one - besides Siebrand - who adds (new) extension I say clearly: I will not add an extension without proper message doc.

Oh I forgot one option: Feel free to invent a complete new message doc system which is better, for you and us :-)