https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11267

--- Comment #10 from Danny B. <dann...@email.cz> 2010-07-21 22:37:40 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > @Purodha: The assumption that English is the definitive and final fallback 
> > is
> > not necessarily valid. Customized local messages don't have to exist in
> > English. For example, an English native speaker visiting a Russian wiki 
> > might
> > want to set 'en,ru'.
> Such a fallback chain would make no sense, because there are no missing
> messages in English. Only if a message is missing in a language does the
> fallback take effect. For this same reason, all fallback chains must end with
> en to ensure there are no undefined messages.

Well, there are some local messages used on some wikis, which are not part of
MediaWiki core or its extensions, so such fallback is not nonsense in general,
however those are rare cases.

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