Renaming caused translations not to show up in production
There are at least two highly-visible messages that were showing in English in the Hebrew Wikipedia this week, even though they were translated months ago:
- MediaWiki:Vector-toc-label/he (translated in March)
- MediaWiki:Vector-unpin-element-label/he (translated in July)
Both of them were renamed on November 15, and I suspect that this is the reason why the translations weren't properly deployed.
The change of the keys was done in this Gerrit change. I guess that the translated keys were renamed after the deployment branch was created.
Can anything be done to prevent this in the future?