On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik
<maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20.08.2011, 22:23 Martijn wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia
(Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the
{{citeFoo}} templates, but numerous others as well. Trying to 'import'
one is a bit of a pain though. Many templates depend on other
templates, and it is not often very clear how (as a fun exercise for
the reader, try to import the {{convert}} template to a new wiki, and
see how easy it is!). I was wondering if it might be a good idea to
include a standard template library to Wikimedia installations,
containing a set of utility templates along with the Wikimedia
distribution. I'm cross-posting foudation, for possible discussion if
this is desirable, and wikitech, for possible discussion if this is
feasable.
Don't forget, English is one of 300-something languages we support.
And users of other languages typically don't feel comfortable with
using English templates, because words like "cite book", "author"
and
"link" are meaningless to them. So we're speaking about 300+ sets of
templates. This is both unmaintainable and burdensome. And don't
forget, not every MediaWiki (that's how our software is called, not
Wikimedia!) will want them. I would suppport a system that downloads
them on-demand, however shipping zillion templates out of the box is
simply out of the question.
--
Best regards,
?Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
eh, Derp on the MediaWiki/Wikimedia, dunno where that came from. Also
I'm not proposing to export all the en.wiki templates, but rather
establish a core set of templates that could be exported (and
translated!) on demand.
Regards,
Martijn