Hi!
Even if categories will be preserved, it easy to create them (manually or with bot) because of their regular nature. It much harder to keep template messages on different languages synchronized or update color scheme.
I think Babel extension is big advancement over existing state of things.
Eugene.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi. The Babel templates are widely used on the Wikimedia Foundation's wikis. Implementing them is a lot of work; you need more then 1000 templates just to cover the languages that the Wikimedia Foundation supports in its projects.
That is of course ridiculous, only a couple of templates should be required for "box with a number in it".
-- brion
We try to use very few with our system on Meta-Wiki. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_language
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). 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).
-- Casey Brown Cbrown1023
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