Hoi, I forward this on behalf of Niklas as he is not subscribed to this list and had it bounced. Thanks, GerardM

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Implementing the Babel extension To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List < foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

On 02/07/2008, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:

We try to use very few with our system on Meta-Wiki. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_language

It is still using one per language, which means hundreds of them. Now, which is easier: copying hundreds of templates periodically, or installing an extension that can be updated the normal way. Especially for wikies outside of WMF which do not use many bots, if any.

One of my main problems with the babel extension is that I don't think it gets rid of the *huge* number of categories that need to be created (otherwise you have ugly redlinks).

There is already a switch to have less categories, requested by me for example. What comes to creating the category pages... this is the first time I see anyone bringing it up.

The system on Meta-Wiki greatly reduces the number of categories, but I've been told that the extension's developer was completely against any changes to the extension (I didn't hear it directly from him).

It looks like you are spreading FUD about the extension AND the developer without checkking the facts first. I would be offended if I were the developer in question.

-- Niklas Laxström

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