Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, go moko gom...@yahoo.com wrote: So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is a mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are necessary for it to work properly. I don't know if such a tool exist, but could it bea (partial) solution? This should not be too hard to program - what is needed is that one exports/imports not only the template but also all templates included in it. There is already functionality to get this list - they are shown on the edit page. Thus, all that is needed is some kind of interface to export this page and all templates directly or indirectly included in it. Also useful in case someone wants to fork with only a subset of the pages. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On 25 August 2011 08:28, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, go moko gom...@yahoo.com wrote: So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is a mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are necessary for it to work properly. I don't know if such a tool exist, but could it bea (partial) solution? This should not be too hard to program - what is needed is that one exports/imports not only the template but also all templates included in it. There is already functionality to get this list - they are shown on the edit page. Thus, all that is needed is some kind of interface to export this page and all templates directly or indirectly included in it. You mean like… checking the “Include templates” box on Special:Export? But the problem is more difficult than that. MediaWiki has no chance of knowing which templates are “necessary for it to work properly”, it can only detect those that are _actually used_ in a specific use case (as you say, those which are shown on the edit page), which is just a subset of those required in general. -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote: You mean like… checking the “Include templates” box on Special:Export? I guess that's what I mean, it's been a few years since I last saw Special:Export - long enough that I have no idea whether that box is from before or after that time. But the problem is more difficult than that. MediaWiki has no chance of knowing which templates are “necessary for it to work properly”, it can only detect those that are _actually used_ in a specific use case (as you say, those which are shown on the edit page), which is just a subset of those required in general. No, but it does at least mean that exporting and importing any single template should be possible in a very short time indeed. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On 25 August 2011 10:47, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
But the problem is more difficult than that. MediaWiki has no chance
of knowing which templates are “necessary for it to work properly”, it
can only detect those that are _actually used_ in a specific use case
(as you say, those which are shown on the edit page), which is just a
subset of those required in general.
No, but it does at least mean that exporting and importing any single
template should be possible in a very short time indeed.
Well… no, generally not. Check for instance {{flagicon}}. There is no
way Special:Export could recognize it is required to export all 2556
(!) templates in [[Special:Prefixindex/Template:Country data]].
Of course, this does help for “simpler” template systems.
-- Petr Kadlec / Mormegil
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
It could frequently come out a big problem of collisions with existing templates with different code. I feel that synonimous templates, with different features, are a very subtle and harmful touble. This raises the long-standing problem of redundancy and coherence so deeply afflicting anything into wiki contents, but extension tags. It's impossible to leave to the willingness of bold, sometimes unexperienced users, the hard task to align templates. Exactly the same, for experienced users. But perhaps, a SharedTemplatesExtension could be built, ensuring a common repository of template routines, matched with common names. I can't imagine how this can be done. :-( Alex ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
Note that things like {{Cite}} and {{trim}} should probably
be an extension that adds a parser function, not a template.
Although the overlap between extensions adding parser
functions and and templates getting tighter with WikiScripts,
in general templates are for re-used wikitext and formatting.
Parser functions / magic words are for computing and logic.
So to share such logic from one wiki to another, one doesn't.
One simply installs the same extension.
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[Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
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.
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
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,
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
2011/8/20 Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com: 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. Translating the templates' names can be easily done in translatewiki.net. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@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
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com 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.
Since Wikia was mentioned in this post, I thought I'd outline how
we've tackled this problem, as it might be interesting to the
discussion.
When a new wiki is created at Wikia, we don't start with an empty
database. Instead, we copy the contents of what we've called a
starter wiki into the newly created database.
Apart from the special role they play in the creation of new wikis,
starter wikis are pretty much normal wiki sites (with the exception of
tighter edit permissions to prevent vandalism).
Have a look at the English starter wiki:
http://starter.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPagesfrom=to=namespace=10
As you can see it has a ton of different templates. All of these exist
at every new wiki when it's created.
Martijn: if your Wikia wiki doesn't have some (or all) of those, that
might be because it was created before the starter system or because
it's in a language other than English and that language's starter wiki
doesn't have the template(s) you want (yes, we have per language
starters, too).
Mail me off-list, I'm sure I can help include the needed templates in
future wikis. :)
--
Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski
Community Engineer
t...@wikia-inc.com
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
- Original Message -
From: Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
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.
+25. I had to pull the book citation template out of Wikipedia to use it
on a Wikia site, and it was a 2 hour process.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
2011/8/20 Łukasz Garczewski t...@wikia-inc.com:
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com 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.
Since Wikia was mentioned in this post, I thought I'd outline how
we've tackled this problem, as it might be interesting to the
discussion.
When a new wiki is created at Wikia, we don't start with an empty
database. Instead, we copy the contents of what we've called a
starter wiki into the newly created database.
Apart from the special role they play in the creation of new wikis,
starter wikis are pretty much normal wiki sites (with the exception of
tighter edit permissions to prevent vandalism).
Have a look at the English starter wiki:
http://starter.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPagesfrom=to=namespace=10
As you can see it has a ton of different templates. All of these exist
at every new wiki when it's created.
Martijn: if your Wikia wiki doesn't have some (or all) of those, that
might be because it was created before the starter system or because
it's in a language other than English and that language's starter wiki
doesn't have the template(s) you want (yes, we have per language
starters, too).
Mail me off-list, I'm sure I can help include the needed templates in
future wikis. :)
--
Lucas 'TOR' Garczewski
Community Engineer
t...@wikia-inc.com
Lucas, thanks for the offer, and I will take you up on it!
In the mean time, where this may (partially) solve the problem for
Wikia, it's the more general problem that is more important. A user
creating a new wiki with our software shouldn't have to lug through a
difficult import process, or have to built some system that easily
manages imports the way Wikia did. It's no coincidence I named this
'a' standard template library in the subject line. Like the STL is not
part of the C++ language, the fact that it is freely available, and
standard, makes C++ much more easy to develop for, as there are many
building blocks readily available for programmers. Likewise, defined
templates are not part of MediaWiki, but could greatly enhance the
user experience. Wikia made the import module for a reason, and the
reason is users are greatly helped by having a standard library of
templates available to them.
Regards,
Martijn
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On 20 August 2011 21:01, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: +25. I had to pull the book citation template out of Wikipedia to use it on a Wikia site, and it was a 2 hour process. Yes. Speaking as a MediaWiki tarball user (at work), this doesn't require a fork (as Fred contemplates) - it just needs an extra tarball, or maybe an XML export file of importable templates, or maybe both (necessary extensions plus template XML). This discussion has also come up on one of the technical lists - a light MW tarball, and a tarball with the extensions one would expect to see on Wikipedia included. Including a standard template set would fit right in with that. This discussion may belong on wikitech-l or mediawiki-l ... - d. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On 20 August 2011 21:01, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: +25. Â I had to pull the book citation template out of Wikipedia to use it on a Wikia site, and it was a 2 hour process. Yes. Speaking as a MediaWiki tarball user (at work), this doesn't require a fork (as Fred contemplates) - it just needs an extra tarball, or maybe an XML export file of importable templates, or maybe both (necessary extensions plus template XML). This discussion has also come up on one of the technical lists - a light MW tarball, and a tarball with the extensions one would expect to see on Wikipedia included. Including a standard template set would fit right in with that. This discussion may belong on wikitech-l or mediawiki-l ... - d. I'm thinking about including anything routinely used as either as an extension, stylesheet, or required program which is needed to make an import from Wikipedia display properly. For example the timeline extension and its required Ploticus program. In short all the things which throw a content oriented user into programing mode. Some of these things might not be possible. Shared hosting plays a role in this matter. Fred ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@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
The English Wikipedia has useful templates for an encyclopedia.
MediaWiki-software is useful for making an encyclopedia, but doesn't
have to be forced to be one. If someone wants a template from en.wp,
they will export it and import it at their own MediaWiki-install. If
that takes two hours, it says more about the total mess of the en.wp
template structure, then about the 'lack of standard templates' in a
MediaWiki-install. It will still take a considerable amount of time to
import a template with standard templates in place.
Then there will be a discussion what will be useful templates for a
new MediaWiki install. If you decide to ship a MediaWiki install with
a set of templates, the best case is that they will use all templates.
Every worse case is that they will end up with a few templates they
can use/want to use and lots and lots of junk.
Furthermore I am wondering who wants to maintain such an arbitrary
bunch of templates for 200 languages? It's not only the name of the
templates that need to be translated. The contents of every template,
including transclusions of other templates and language-specific
outcome of 'magic words' (for example in {{#ifeq: }}-statements) need
to be translated. If one wants to import a template from en.wp, he/she
has to import templates and templates where that template is depending
on like before. Now they have to translate the inclusion of standard
templates too, because on their wiki these standard templates now have
names in their custom language.
Sumurai8
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@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
The English Wikipedia has useful templates for an encyclopedia.
MediaWiki-software is useful for making an encyclopedia, but doesn't
have to be forced to be one. If someone wants a template from en.wp,
they will export it and import it at their own MediaWiki-install. If
that takes two hours, it says more about the total mess of the en.wp
template structure, then about the 'lack of standard templates' in a
MediaWiki-install. It will still take a considerable amount of time to
import a template with standard templates in place.
Then there will be a discussion what will be useful templates for a
new MediaWiki install. If you decide to ship a MediaWiki install with
a set of templates, the best case is that they will use all templates.
Every worse case is that they will end up with a few templates they
can use/want to use and lots and lots of junk.
Furthermore I am wondering who wants to maintain such an arbitrary
bunch of templates for 200 languages? It's not only the name of the
templates that need to be translated. The contents of every template,
including transclusions of other templates and language-specific
outcome of 'magic words' (for example in {{#ifeq: }}-statements) need
to be translated. If one wants to import a template from en.wp, he/she
has to import templates and templates where that template is depending
on like before. Now they have to translate the inclusion of standard
templates too, because on their wiki these standard templates now have
names in their custom language.
Sumurai8
I guess those who would want to maintain this would be people interested
in forks of Wikipedia. Good point though about the template structure on
Wikipedia. Rationalization of that would be part of this.
Fred
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From: Sumurai8 (DD) sumur...@gmail.com
To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc:
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@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
The English Wikipedia has useful templates for an encyclopedia.
MediaWiki-software is useful for making an encyclopedia, but doesn't
have to be forced to be one. If someone wants a template from en.wp,
they will export it and import it at their own MediaWiki-install. If
that takes two hours, it says more about the total mess of the en.wp
template structure, then about the 'lack of standard templates' in a
MediaWiki-install. It will still take a considerable amount of time to
import a template with standard templates in place.
Then there will be a discussion what will be useful templates for a
new MediaWiki install. If you decide to ship a MediaWiki install with
a set of templates, the best case is that they will use all templates.
Every worse case is that they will end up with a few templates they
can use/want to use and lots and lots of junk.
Furthermore I am wondering who wants to maintain such an arbitrary
bunch of templates for 200 languages? It's not only the name of the
templates that need to be translated. The contents of every template,
including transclusions of other templates and language-specific
outcome of 'magic words' (for example in {{#ifeq: }}-statements) need
to be translated. If one wants to import a template from en.wp, he/she
has to import templates and templates where that template is depending
on like before. Now they have to translate the inclusion of standard
templates too, because on their wiki these standard templates now have
names in their custom language.
Sumurai8
So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is a
mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are necessary for
it to work properly.
I don't know if such a tool exist, but could it bea (partial) solution?
G. Moko
(Forgive my poor english...)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is a mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are necessary for it to work properly. I don't know if such a tool exist, but could it bea (partial) solution? G. Moko (Forgive my poor english...) If the category scheme is rational importing all the templates in a category will work. Fred ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
IMHO, the idea of a decent set of common, shared, english-named, standard templates is really a a good one. Noone have nothing against the fact that reserved words of any programming language is english-named and standard. I presume, that many of existing templates aren't used into ns0 or other content namespaces; in my opinion, the core shared templates should be focused on common content namespaces troubles. Please consider too that many templates require some peculiar css settings too; perhaps a common, shared ccs for tags used in content namespaces would be both more simple to do, and very useful so build a shared group of templates. Alex brollo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
