On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:

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.

You still aren't understanding me... I'm *love* the idea of an extension to do this, I would rather we install it/one with the best features first (especially if it's Wikimedia-wide).

...

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.

$wgBabelUseMainCategories A boolean (true or false) indicating whether main categories featuring all users who specify a level for that language should be added to a xx category; defaults to true.

How are they added to the category? Ordered by ability, then alphabetically... or just alphabetically?

...

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

Please check *your* fact first. :-) I am *for* the extension, I just wish it were tweaked to be more efficient. I'm surprised no one is yelling "enwiki-centric" because the levels were in-fact based off of enwiki... Furthermore, I put the information in parenthesis *so* he wouldn't be offended, I have no reason to believe that what I told was incorrect considering I heard it from a pretty reputable source.