Hoi,
When we are to do this for English and have digitise and digitize, we have
to keep in mind that this ONLY deals with issues that are differences
between GB and US English. There are other varieties of English that may
make this more complicated.
Given the size of the GB and US populations it would split the cache and
effectively double the cache size. There are more languages where this would
provide serious benefits. I can easily imagine that the German, Spanish and
Portuguese community would be interested.. Then there are many of the
"other" languages that may have an interest.. The first order of business is
not can it be done but who will implement and maintain the language part of
this.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/9/12 Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net>
Happy-melon wrote:
Ilmari
Karonen wrote:
> -{af: {{GFDL/af}}; als: {{GFDL/als}}; an: {{GFDL/an}}; ar: {{GFDL/ar}};
> ast: {{GFDL/ast}}; be: {{GFDL/be}}; be-tarask: {{GFDL/be-tarask}}; <!--
> ...and so on for about 70 more languages -->}-
The above begs the question, of course, would this switch actually work?
And if it does, how does it affect the cache and linktables? More
investigation needed, methinks....
Indeed, that was what I was wondering about too. Without actually
trying it out, my guess would be that it would indeed work, but at a
cost: it'd first parse all the 75 or so subtemplates and then throw all
but one of them away.
Of course, that's what one would have to do anyway, to get full link
table consistency.
It does seem to me that it might not be *that* inefficient, *if* the
page were somehow cached in its pre-languageconverted state but after
the expensive template parsing has been done. Does such a cache
actually exist, or, if not, could one be added with reasonable ease?
--
Ilmari Karonen
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