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List of "raw" definitions in other languages

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RECOMMENDATION
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The following is defined in /IP/languages/messages/MessagesEs.php:
	'raw' => array( '0', 'SINFORMATO', 'SINPUNTOS', 'RAW:' ),

The first two aliases are missing trailing colons. The line should read: 
	'raw' => array( '0', 'SINFORMATO:', 'SINPUNTOS:', 'RAW:' ),


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DRAWBACK
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There may be pages that are using SINFORMATO or SINPUTOS without the colon. I would think that these pages are few and far inbetween because {{sinformatoTemplateName}} is not legible. There do not seem to be any main namespace pages in any es wiki that use this construct.[1]
	

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BACKGROUND
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The construct "{{raw..." can have two different behaviors:
- "raw magic word": {{raw:A}} will transclude the contents of Template:A
- "template named raw": {{raw}} will evaluate a template called Template:Raw

However, in MessagesEs.php, SINFORMATO and SINPUNTOS are defined without a colon.

This would mean that the "raw magic word" behavior would have to be invoked by the following {{sinFormatoTemplateName}}. Compare this to {{raw:TemplateName}}. The absence of a colon would make the former hard to read.

This absence of a trailing colon is unique to MessagesEs.php alone. None of the other 40 languages that override the default "raw" omits a trailing colon. See the attachment: Messages_and_raw.txt

In addition, es.wikisource.org happens to have a template called sinformato: https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Plantilla:SinFormato.[2] Several pages actually have {{sinFormato}} as the first line in the wikitext, which MediaWiki is currently outputting as the literal {{sinFormato}}.[3] Although these appear to be the only 10 pages that use {{sinFormato}} and each of the 10 can be edited individually to use {{sin formato}}, the problem still remains that {{sinformatoTemplateName}} is a construct that is illegible and prone to error.


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NOTES
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[1]: The Main (0) and Project (4) namespaces of the following dumps were parsed with XOWA:

2014-01-28	eswiki
2014-01-30	eswiktionary
2014-02-03	eswikisource
2014-02-01	eswikivoyage
2014-02-08	eswikiquote
2014-02-07	eswikibooks
2014-02-09	eswikiversity
2014-01-24	eswikinews

No occurrence of {{SINFORMATO}} or {{SINPUTOS}} (without a colon) were found, except for those pages listed in [3]. This makes sense as {{sinFormatoTemplateName}} would probably not be intuitive to many editors.

Note the following reservations:
- The XOWA parser is not the same as the MediaWiki parser, so it's possible it may miss instances (I doubt it, but then again I am the XOWA developer.)
- Only pages in the Main and Project namespaces were scanned. Other namespaces may be using the non-trailing-colon syntax
- Only pages in the listed dumps were scanned. Recent edits or history versions may be using the non-trailing-colon syntax
- None of the pages in derived Spanish wikis were scanned ($fallback = 'es'). This includes the wikis in the following language codes: 'an'; 'arn'; 'ay'; 'gn'; 'lad'; 'nah'; 'qu' 

[2]: Specifically, Plantilla:SinFormato redirects to https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Plantilla:Sin_formato

[3]: The following are the only known pages in namespace 0 of the 2014-02-03 es.wikisource.org dump:

https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/El_Monitor_Araucano_Tomo_I,_N°1
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/El_cajón_oblongo
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Segunda_bula_Inter_Caetera_de_Alejandro_VI_del_4_de_mayo_de_1493
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Arenga_de_Santa_Rosa
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Socialismo_de_Estado_y_anarquismo
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Fuero_de_Llanes
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Conversación_con_una_momia
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Título_de_tierras_de_Los_Llanos_de_Santa_Rosa
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Carta_a_Silvia
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/El_hundimiento_de_la_Escuadra_Peruana