Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The system may work fine on Meta... That is fine for
Meta. I am interested
in seeing it work on other wikis where it does not work.
Meta's template system was not designed for Meta only; it is the
result of collaboration in various crosswiki channels and wiki
discussions with users from many wikis. The levels and descriptions
were carefully selected after such discussion and an analysis of the
levels used on the top 10 wikis. On the other hand, the extension
seems to have copied the levels verbatim from en-Wikipedia. I think
the extension would be more appropriate for global implementation if
it used Meta's more global and better described levels (although a
crosswiki template transclusion extension would be a better solution).
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Crosswiki_babelboxes>
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel/Archives/2008-03#New_babel_templates>
Ilmari Karonen <nospam(a)vyznev.net> wrote:
Well, installing a global extension obviously forces
global
standardization of the levels. There's two relatively obvious ways to
go about that: either pick the largest common subset (which would
essentially be the 0/1/2/3/native system from Commons) or the smallest
common superset (which would more or less be the 0/1/2/3/4/native/5/...
system from enwiki) of the various systems currently in use.
The template system on Meta uses 0-4 and Native, based on the
discussion and crosswiki analysis described above. I think that is a
more appropriate choice for a global extension than copying
en-Wikipedia's levels.
Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
A difference to my user pages at de.WP is that there
is no level 4 at
Meta, did I get that right?
Another difference: at Meta there are only categories for User de,
User eo and so on, but not for the levels (de-M, eo-4...). Is this the
point we are talking about?
There is a level 4, which says something like "This user can read and
write at a near-native level in <language>".
There's one category per language, but they're sorted into lists by
proficiency. For example, see the category description for
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:User_de>. You can click on
the links in the English category description to jump directly to the
list of users of a given proficiency.
--
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)