On 03/06/2013 10:13 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> It's already used for parts of the UniversalLanguageSelector
> extension, to make them as portable as possible. There are no current
> solid plans to make wider use of it in MediaWiki, but I'd love to see
> it replace as much of our messages system as possible. There are some
> technical challenges - the message file format is different
> (essentially JSON), the way the files are loaded is different, and the
> application of messages to the page is different. Some changes in
> ResourceLoader will probably be needed to make it robust and easy to
> use in the rest of MediaWiki.

That's probably a longer horizon idea.  If it were done, though, we
should be careful not to make it harder to have messages used on both
client and server.

Matt Flaschen

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