Thread:Project:Current issues/Contest and RTL/reply (3)

Unfortunately some of these UI message updates led to the &lt;span> markup being user-visible due to different message-handling in the extension.

We're talking about a remote edge case here (user has a MediaWiki.org account and their UI language set to an RTL language and wants to participate in an English language contest). Given that the Contest UI messages are in heavy duty production use right now, I would ask that they only be modified if absolutely necessary. If I hadn't been awake way too late, we'd probably have broken the experience for a few hundred users.

I strongly suggest that any RTL issues or other i18n issues with the extension or its messages be addressed in the context of the actual extension code, so these changes can be more carefully reviewed and deployed without affecting production.