Ilmari Karonen wrote:
>> A popular game played with a bat and ball is -{en-gb:Cricket;
>> en-us:Baseball}-.
>
> That reminds me... some time ago, someone proposed to enable
> LanguageConverter on Commons (but without any automatic conversion,
> presumably) and to (ab?)use it to replace the existing autotranslation
> hacks based on {{int:lang}}. Would that be in any sense feasible?
>
> There would presumably be two major use cases: the easy one, which I do
> believe the converter should handle just fine, would be to replace the
> current <http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:LangSwitch>,
> generally used to autotranslate short phrases, with syntax like:
>
> -{de:Eigene Arbeit; en:Own work; fi:Oma teos; fr:Travail personnel; etc.}-
>
> (See <http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Own> for the source of
> the example.)
I don't think it's really a saner syntax.
> The not-so-simple case would be replacing
> <http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Autotranslate>, which is
> used to translate entire templates, usually (though by no means
> necessarily) combined with a long list of links to the various
> translations so that users can easily browse them if the automatically
> chosen version is no good or something. A naive implementation of that
> would look something like:
>
> -{af: {{GFDL/af}}; als: {{GFDL/als}}; an: {{GFDL/an}}; ar: {{GFDL/ar}};
> ast: {{GFDL/ast}}; be: {{GFDL/be}}; be-tarask: {{GFDL/be-tarask}}; <!--
> ...and so on for about 70 more languages -->}-
>
> (Source: <http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL>.)
>
> I'd like to hope that there might be some better way of doing it,
> though, even if I can't offhand think of what it might look like.
>
> Still, would something like that work, even in theory, and would it be
> an improvement over the way these things are currently done (which is
> hacky enough itself)?
I don't think so. It's terribly ugly. You would want something like
{{GFDL/{{ENABLEDVARIANT}}}} (no, such magic word doesn't seem to exist yet).
But you would still have the problem of having people *choose* them. You
wouldn't put dozens of tabs to choose the variant. Which in fact isn't a
variant.
These are languages, variant system is not appropiate for them.
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