As far as I know we have these options:
1. Provide the text in the content language of the wiki instead of in the
user language (so a French user will get English interface on English
Wikipedia), but save a few bytes by sending a single translation to the
user.
2. Provide the text in the user language, but use more bytes to keep all
translations in the same JS
3. Provide the text in the user language, but make an extra HTTP request to
get it
I opted for 2, which is the approach used on Wikidata gadgets. See e.g.:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-autoEdit.js
The ideal solution would be what will be provided by
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0
but this is not available yet.
Helder
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org wrote:
On 2014-07-26 08:11, Helder . wrote:
Hi!
As suggested at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_%28users%29#Keep_gadgets_central
we should keep a single central gadget, and import it from other wikis,
instead of making many copies.
The central gadget could be the one I added to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-featured-articles-links.js
Please give your feedback on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.js#Global_gadget_for_LinkFA
This gadget would eventually get quite bloated with translations if all
the wikis make use of it. I like how OldWikisource's centralized gadgets
require wikis to translate messages locally, helping to keep the size down.
Translations for a limited number of languages can be centralized to help
interwiki users.
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