[Mediawiki-i18n] Statistics about the use of wfMsg functions

[Niklas Laxström]

On 18 September 2011 17:38, Seb35 <seb35wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While reading a bug pointed by the i18n triage
> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16026>, Happy-melon says
> "A more general bug (which might well exist, I didn't check thoroughly)
> would be "ALL MediaWiki messages should be either plaintext or accept
> wikimarkup."
>
> So I had the idea of censusing the wfMsg calls in the MW code and try to
> detect which ones accept wikimarkup or other dialects (it depends of the
> wfMsg function and of the parameters of that function). So I wrote
> yesterday a Python script to census the wfMsg calls in one side and the
> messages in another side. The latter is not very useful in fact but the
> former gives some interesting results.
>
> I’ve done some statistics about the wfMsg calls on
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WfMsg_statistics>. There are also the raw
> data and the link to the script (output to CSV).

You should also include ->addWikiMsg ->wrapWikiMsg and perhaps
->addWikiMsgArray since they are the third major group of message
functions after wfMsg* and wfMessage.

In the most used messages is 'nbbytes', is that typo from nbytes?

We can see that wfMsgWikiHtml is the first of wfMsg* functions that is
nicely getting phased out, just as we want to.

  -Niklas
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Niklas Laxström