On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Niklas Laxström
<niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/07/2008, Casey Brown
<cbrown1023.ml(a)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.
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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.
--
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
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