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).