New stuff to check

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 :-)

Raymond, thank you for this well thought-out and polite reply. :-)

I have plenty of projects on my plate, but I'll definitely need to look into writing an awesomer message documentation system in the future.

But until that...can we now fulfill my request?

Thanks for adding the message doc, looks offhand OK. But I wonder why I don't see these commits on Gerrit? These are Gitweb links only. It's impossible for me to track changes in those files if they are not going through Gerrit. Is bypassing Gerrit still possible for extensions not used by WMF?

It still appears to be possible. I've made Chad aware of it multiple times.

Looks like within 2 weeks or so pushing directly to master will no longer be possible in gerrit repos.

Progress:

•  Done LinkFilter
•  Done SiteMetrics
•  Done Phalanx
•  Done VoteNY
•  Done Comments

Not done yet:

• NewSignupPage: 2 messages are prefixed with 'shout-', 1 w/o any prefix. Please change them to 'newsignuppage-'-