Hey Srikanth, Thanks for replying. So what I understand is that its better to write my own js after noting the requirement of my WP. As said earlier I want to do this for Gujarati (gu) WP. How to do this ?
Also I went through the Tagger, it looks good, can you please help me on how to localize it ? And as far as I know, one needs sysops/admin rights on WP for playing around with js, I am not an admin on GU WP. So what should I do ? Thanks. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 02:23, Amir E. Aharoni < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > As far as i understand, a Centralized gadgets repository is being > > worked on, and it is supposed to solve this issue in an elegant way, > > but i don't know what its actual status is. > > > > While Centralized gadget repository is indeed a need and might solve the > issue in a way, IMO there is another way. The cite templates usage and > complexity in English Wikipedia is bit high and if one were to use the > centralized gadget in a language wiki, they need to copy all the templates > and carefully localize so that it does not break. And debugging > templates/js can be painful, trust me. What would be ideal is to look the > requirement and see if there are alternates / write your own. For example, > we didnt localize Twinkle in Tamil because we hardly use more than 10 > templates for page tagging. So we went ahead and localized tagger[1] which > fits our size, saved time, does the job well. > > > > If i'm wrong about assuming that it's being worked on, then the > > JavaScript code has to be copied and localized manually, which would > > be tedious. > > > > Copying code is not just tedious, but also bad thing because one needs to > keep track of versioning and keep doing the tedious job again. (We copied > WikiLove v1 and sitting with it due to laziness) So unless its a code that > you can support, avoid copying. Its ideal to have the js code localizable > and wish more developers know and care about writing code that > supports internationalization. > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hoo_man/Scripts/Tagger > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
