> > . It should be the same with templates: the code of the template should be > in one convenient place. Whoever wants to use a template can use it. If you > don't want to use a template, you don't. If you want to create your own, > you create your own.
Yet on English Wikipedia every localised english language use template has over the years been removed for a one size, one english term fits all approach even when they dont. The example with the use of monuments was a translation for heritage sites, but a monument isn't a heritage site here. Heritage sites here include Indigenous heritage that of my family and friends while the one size fits all WLM relegates us to being Flora and Fauna. So yes forgive me if I have lived experience that sit nice in a one size fits all universe The point I'm making is one size can never fit all, if we are to strive for equity then we should consider how translation impacts when one size fits all and the argument is made that it makes updating simple, lowers maintenance, and reduces obsolete documentation. On Wed, 2 Sept 2026 at 18:11, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > > בתאריך יום ד׳, 2 בספט׳ 2026 ב-5:57 מאת Gnangarra via Wikimedia-l < > [email protected]>: > >> These may be advantages >> >>> 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 >> >> they also come risks of being culturally inoperable for communities, or >> worse setting a one size fits all when we know term dont translate even >> across the english language, as prime example is the word Monuments which >> causes significant issues within the rules for WLM and causes some >> countries to be racially divided by them >> > > This is a common misconception. > > Photos on Commons are accessible to all wikis, but no one has to use them. > It should be the same with templates: the code of the template should be in > one convenient place. Whoever wants to use a template can use it. If you > don't want to use a template, you don't. If you want to create your own, > you create your own. > > It's mentioned in several questions in the FAQ that I wrote about it > recently: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_templates/FAQ . If you > read the FAQ and still have doubts, please let me know. (It would probably > be better to do it on the talk page > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Global_templates/FAQ and not here.) > > The comparison to Monuments and WLM is irrelevant. WLM is a very narrow > and specific project with targeted rules, organizers, deadlines, budgets, > etc. The idea of global templates is to create a generic repository to > share code. What is done with the code is completely up to the editors > community. If it's built as proposed, it will not force any foreign > cultural workflows that people don't want to adopt. > -- Boodarwun Gnangarra 'ngany dabakarn koorliny arn boodjera dardon nlangan Nyungar koortabodjar'
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