Index: trunk/phase3/docs/hooks.txt
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--- trunk/phase3/docs/hooks.txt (revision 37291)
+++ trunk/phase3/docs/hooks.txt (revision 37292)
@@ -862,6 +862,14 @@
$rev: the new revision
$baseID: the revision ID this was based off, if any
+'NormalizeMessageKey': Called before the software gets the text of a message
+ (stuff in the MediaWiki: namespace), useful for changing WHAT message gets displayed
+&$key: the message being looked up. Change this to something else to change what message gets displayed (string)
+&$useDB: whether or not to look up the message in the database (bool)
+&$langCode: the language code to get the message for (string) - or -
+ whether to use the content language (true) or site language (false) (bool)
+&$transform: whether or not to expand variables and templates in the message (bool)
+
'OpenSearchUrls': Called when constructing the OpenSearch description XML.
Hooks can alter or append to the array of URLs for search & suggestion formats.
&$urls: array of associative arrays with Url element attributes
Index: trunk/phase3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
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--- trunk/phase3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php (revision 37291)
+++ trunk/phase3/includes/GlobalFunctions.php (revision 37292)
@@ -460,6 +460,8 @@
function wfMsgGetKey( $key, $useDB, $langCode = false, $transform = true ) {
global $wgParser, $wgContLang, $wgMessageCache, $wgLang;
+ wfRunHooks('NormalizeMessageKey', array(&$key, &$useDB, &$langCode, &$transform));
+
# If $wgMessageCache isn't initialised yet, try to return something sensible.
if( is_object( $wgMessageCache ) ) {
$message = $wgMessageCache->get( $key, $useDB, $langCode );
Index: trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES
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--- trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES (revision 37291)
+++ trunk/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES (revision 37292)
@@ -182,8 +182,9 @@
* Allow the search box, toolbox and languages box in the Monobook sidebar to be
moved around arbitrarily using special sections in [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]:
SEARCH, TOOLBOX and LANGUAGES
-
-
+* Add a new hook NormalizeMessageKey to allow extensions to replace messages before
+ the database is potentially queried
+
=== Bug fixes in 1.13 ===
* (bug 10677) Add link to the file description page on the shared repository
