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.
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.
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Niklas Laxström