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.
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