I agree; Meta's system works just fine as-is, and I see no need whatsoever to enable an extension which provides inferior functionality.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Simetrical [mailto:Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com] Sent: July 1, 2008 8:05 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Cc: Wikimedia developers; wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Implementing the Babel extension
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
On MetaWiki we implemented an overhauled user language template system, which only uses one meta-template with subpage localizations (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_language). It includes a well-defined set of levels (unlike the old babel system), uses only one sorted category per language, and has various other improvements made possible with ParserFunctions. The babel system was phased out on MetaWiki long ago; see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:User_language#Comparison_with_ babel_templates.
Now that looks like *exactly* how this system should work. Good job to Meta. There's definitely no need for an extension here that anyone's pointed out.