Topic on Module talk:TNT

Hi. I am an admin of an Wiki site in Mainland China, and we ported some modules from Mediawiki Wiki and Wikipedia (namely Module:Documentation); a lot of them depends on Module:TNT. Our wiki is small, has only one language (Chinese), and doesn't expect additional languages in the foreseeable future; thus, we don't need and don't have the skill to maintain TNT. And, the GFW makes TNT a pain as it still depends on Wikimedia (which would be blocked).

We would like to remove TNT from our port. Could anyone please point us as to how to do so? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Update: sorry, I thought you were talking about a Wikimedia project.

I'm not sure why you would want to do that. By the way, every wiki has only one language.

You don't have to maintain the TNT module, it's synced by a bot. Its purpose is to allow every wiki to reuse modules and templates and be able to update them without having to retranslate them. You just translate the strings of the template or module in a .tab file on Commons and then you can sync your local copy of the template/module with the new version without having to modify it each time to add the translation.

I don't think there is a way to "just remove it" -- every template and module uses it to localize itself, so you would have to replace every TNT usage with the actual string from the corresponding data table.

Thx,we will try it.

You mentioned you imported some things from Wikipedia; as far as I know, no Wikipedia language version makes use of Module:TNT or any similar system, so you might have some luck looking on Wikipedia for the templates/modules you need, and skipping MediaWiki.org entirely.

Thanks! We just really liked the style of Template:Documentation on MediaWiki.org. We'll just try to deal with that one and avoid MediaWiki.org and go with Wikipedia modules in the future.

@Dinoguy1000: Module:TNT is actually used on hundreds of Wikipedias, presumably due to the growth of Multilingual Templates and Modules. The English Wikipedia does use it very little, with the only templates actually using it being ones related to graphs.

Aah, fair. Clearly I need to be more careful about speaking outside of my competencies. =)