I agree with Harry. My only difficulty was finding out what was needed. Why not have the templates directory in /WEB-INF/classes by default on install but have all the values commented out. Then, should anyone want to make changes, they simply have to find the right one, uncomment the line, edit it and they are away! Leave the default values in JSPWiki.jar.
A good reason to keep them out of /classes/ is the difficulty of upgrading. For example, we might reshuffle keys from one property file to another (we've done this) or introduce new property files. This would make upgrades yet a bit more difficult, since these would become yet another configuration file to be merged. In addition, they would be the burden of *everyone*, even those who do not wish to change any localization.
It's better to have few bigger files than a lot of small files when upgrading...
So in short, I'm worried about the overall maintenance overhead this would cause people, which might not be worth the while considering how rarely people need to change them.
/Janne
