Category talk:Multilingual support templates
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Shouldn't Template:lang-nds direct to Low German since that's the name of the article? — AjaxSmack 23:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] will somebody think of the children
please, please stop creating these {{lang-ISO1}} templates. It is insane to create separate templates for the 5,000 or so languages in ISO. It is perfectly sufficient, and much cleaner to just use {{langWithName}} directly. What you are doing is creating a crapload of templates that do nothing else but transclude another template. Which is a bad idea already for concerns of server load. I would even recommend scrapping that too, and spell out the langauge link in the text, as in
- [[French language|French]]: ''{{lang|fr|langue}}''.
All "multilingual support templates" we should need are {{lang}} and {{rtl-lang}}, and maybe a couple of special cases like {{IAST}} or {{ArabDIN}} for specified transliteration standards. If for some reason we keep these templates around, they should always be subst:ed! dab (𒁳) 10:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- From what I remember, template transclusion hasn't been an issue as far as the server load is concerned for quite a while now. As long as transcluded templates are not frequently edited (and {{lang-xx}} templates are certainly not edited often), the server load effects of requesting a transcluded template vs. a regular template are pretty much the same. And since the server load isn't an issue, then there is really no compelling reason to sacrifice convenience these templates offer.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
