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Bug 8846 - Patch fixing hardcoded links in interface messages


Summary:	Patch fixing hardcoded links in interface messages

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Internationalization (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Keywords:	patch

Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported:	2007-02-01 11:23 UTC by Daniel Arnold
Modified:	2007-02-18 19:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

Attachments
Patch fixing hardcoded links in interface messages (3.13 KB, patch) 2007-02-01 11:28 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
same patch as above but with "svn diff" instad of plain "diff" (5.24 KB, patch) 2007-02-01 12:11 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
improved version that now lists all url definitions (5.45 KB, patch) 2007-02-01 16:46 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
same patch as patch2 but without the url table on inital main page (3.13 KB, patch) 2007-02-02 12:36 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
link corection patch for MessagesXX.php from A-C (114.27 KB, patch) 2007-02-05 11:02 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
same patch as above for A-C but usage of {{ns: only in places where needed (101.68 KB, patch) 2007-02-05 18:51 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
Same patch as above for F to H (71.33 KB, patch) 2007-02-18 17:55 UTC, Daniel Arnold	Details
Show Obsolete (6) Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Description Daniel Arnold 2007-02-01 11:23:11 UTC

MediaWiki interface messages contain hardcorded links into the project namespace (the pages don't exist by default).

Thus:

1)
I have replaced every call of "Project:PAGENAME" in messages with a template call of the page that defines the link 
targets.

2)
I have added to the after-installation-mainpage a list of pages not existing in vanilla MediaWiki which interface 
definition files (in any language) expect to exist though. So people have a quick overview in ne place which pages they 
need to customize in order to avoid broken links in the interface.

I have started with the MessagesEn.php. If the patch gets applied step 1) should be applied to all 151 MessageXX.php files 
as this problem causes quite some trouble in multilingual wikis and as the fix can be done in a search and replace manner 
which doesn't change any real text (and thus you don't need to know the language of the language file you are fixing).

See this thread: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/029298.html for details, especially this 
mail http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-January/029326.html outlines the problem for multilingual wikis.

Comment 1 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-01 11:28:20 UTC

Created attachment 3164 [details]
Patch fixing hardcoded links in interface messages

patch for above described bug

Comment 2 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-01 12:11:40 UTC

Created attachment 3165 [details]
same patch as above but with "svn diff" instad of plain "diff"

thanks to Raymond for pointing out the format issue and helping me with the
patch ;-)

Comment 3 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-01 16:46:18 UTC

Created attachment 3166 [details]
improved version that now lists all url definitions

Bug #6038 does cover a very similar topic. Especially the attached file there
does list all static urls. I checked all urls listed there against the current
version of MessagesEn.php and found three url definitions I did forget to add
to the table on the initial main page.

I now have checked all internal links. However the external links listed at Bug
#6038 still need some kind of treatment. As this is different from the internal
links I left it for the time being.

Comment 4 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-02-01 17:50:30 UTC

Tim has had performance concerns in the past with using curly-brace syntax in too many messages.  I 
for one am not going to commit until this gets run by him.

Comment 5 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-01 17:53:23 UTC

Pardon? This does not introduce new "curly-brace syntax". If you look you will see that the number has been exactly 
the same.

Comment 6 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2007-02-01 17:55:43 UTC

Sorry, my bad, you're correct.

Comment 7 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-02 12:36:37 UTC

Created attachment 3171 [details]
same patch as patch2 but without the url table on inital main page

If you don't like the table on intitial main page apply this patch to
mediawiki-svn

Comment 8 Leon Weber 2007-02-02 16:06:19 UTC

Patch applied in r19724. If noone stabs you, please reopen and attach the patch
for the remaining files :-P

Comment 9 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-05 11:02:48 UTC

Created attachment 3183 [details]
link corection patch for MessagesXX.php from A-C

This patch contains the first follow up to the above patch applied to SVN. At
contains the fixes for the message files starting from A including C, excluding
MessagesAr.php (will follow later) and inclduing further fixes for
MessagesEn.php.

The fixes include replacement of hardcoded project namespace links, replaced
hardcoded localised namespace names, replaced local wiki markup. The
Messages.En.php namespace calls were replaced by {{ns: in order to indicate to
translators that they shouldn't translate these in messages (very common
mistake).

Comment 10 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-05 11:05:49 UTC

P.S.: All links wich I as unable to resolve are marked with a comment and are subject to later retranslation from the 
english message file by the translators of these files.

Comment 11 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-05 18:51:46 UTC

Created attachment 3187 [details]
same patch as above for A-C but usage of {{ns: only in places where needed

As well some other small fixes

Comment 12 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-06 00:23:23 UTC

Leon applied the last patch to SVN today.

Comment 13 uv.wiki 2007-02-16 00:45:22 UTC

I submitted a patch for the Latin localization (la) that hopefully 
addresses all the concerns raised here: bug8998

Comment 14 Daniel Arnold 2007-02-18 17:55:12 UTC

Created attachment 3240 [details]
Same patch as above for F to H

This bug fixes (or highlights in case I was not able fixing it due to language
problems) the above mentioned link problems for message files from F to H,
leaving MessagesFa.php and MessagesHe.php out for the time being (RTL languages
will follow later otherwise I will get crazy ;).

Comment 15 Leon Weber 2007-02-18 19:05:32 UTC

Applied in SVN trunk, r19985.

Comment 16 Leon Weber 2007-02-18 19:11:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #12)
> Leon applied the last patch to SVN today.

For reference: it's r19794.

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