בתאריך יום ד׳, 2 בספט׳ 2026 ב-5:18 מאת Geert Van Pamel via Wikimedia-l <[email protected]>:
> About the clutter of local templates on Wikipedia. Since 2019 there was a > project for "Global templates". It never was a project. > What is the status? I don't > see much strategy to implement this soon. As a volunteer, active on > multiple languages, this is a handicap; every Wikipedia is using > its own templates. > This is not just your intuition. It was also confirmed by several research project, e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Connecting_Wikifunctions_to_Wikipedia_Opportunities_and_Challenges.pdf (page 13) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Languages_Onboarding_Experiment_2024_-_Executive_Summary (not immediately obvious, but if you read the fineprint, a lot will be about templates) > > I read on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_templates: > "This is not a project that is being executed or planned to be executed by > anyone at any defined point in time, at least not yet. This > is just an idea, albeit a very detailed one." > Exactly, that's what it always has been. > Personally, I believe templates should not be translated, nor localised > (except in rare cases). > > Advantages of Global templates: > * all languages use the same template, with identical parameters > * copy/past is easy amongst languages on Wikipedia > * easier documentation maintenance: less obsolete documentation If by "translated" you mean that they shouldn't be forked in every wiki, then I agree. The strings that are shown to users must be translatable. Most of the other code should be shareable and not forked. Or do you mean something else?
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