Message documentation filled with senseless content

Message documentation filled with senseless content

What is purpose to fill message documentation with message text itself or message name with <> signs?

EugeneZelenko14:29, 4 April 2010

Need example URLs. I think I know what you mean, but want to be certain. If it's the same thing, it's a MediaWiki feature/bug, depending on how you look at it :).

Siebrand16:35, 4 April 2010

I think he means the editing area. I have the same issue for Lower Sorbian (but not for Upper Sorbian). This issue occurs in normal editing mode only, in ajax editing area it doesn't occur. The name of the message is inserted within angle brackets which are displayed as HTML entities, e.g:

&lt;revreview-pending-basic&gt; for message revreview-pending-basic

It seems that this appears instead of the text of the fallback language.

Michawiki21:24, 4 April 2010
 
EugeneZelenko14:02, 6 April 2010

It looks stupid to me, too. This was introduced in mwr:64178 and I took out a little piece of it in a live hack to restore the old behaviour pending discussion on IRC:

+			$message = '&lt;' . htmlspecialchars( $key ) . '&gt;';
+		} else
Siebrand21:19, 9 April 2010

It has been like that far longer, just with one step less escaping ircc.

Nike06:44, 10 April 2010

The live hack had side effects, so it was removed.

Siebrand18:47, 10 April 2010