Erik Moeller, 29/10/2011 00:16:
In addition to English Wikipedia, WikiLove has been enabled [...]
MediaWiki.org and Commons.
Perhaps we can even change the definition on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove , currently «extension designed to promote the spread of WikiLove within Wikipedia».
Liam Wyatt, 29/10/2011 04:38:
Seriously though... in Wikilove can't the logo (the heart) and all of the individual awards (barnstars, food, animals) be changed on a per-wiki basis?
I don't know the icon (I think not), but the rest is obviously configurable. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove#How_to_customize
So if there's an icon that's more culturally appropriate in a different language then it can be changed to that instead. If I recall correctly, the Burmese Wikipedia uses "lotuses" (rather than barnstars) and the French Wikipedia uses laurel wreaths. In those cases, for example, not only can those awards be used instead of barnstars but a little icon of a lotus or a laurel wreath could easily be used instead of a pink heart icon.
The point being that "leaving friendly messages with cute invented awards on talkpages" is not an en.wp or American specific activity - most (all?) of the different language wikis have something equivalent. All the WikiLove tool does is make it easier to do and if the local community wants to use it but wants to change the way the tool looks/feels then I don't think there's any problem with that.
Basically yes, although I didn't check whether local implementations actually localised the extension; sometimes we have blind implementations of en.wiki concepts (which are often the default even in MediaWiki) because localisers are not bold/industrious enough. I don't think the extension's aim is to export kittens, beer (!) and other unknown amenities to all communities. ;-)
Nemo