Hi! I'm thinking on submitting a proposal for a rapid grant, with the idea of spreading the concept of Multilingual Templates and Modules and the Synchronizer tool I developed. The plan would be building a list of several top Lua modules and their authors, and then contacting them and working with them to globalize the modules. Then, use Synchronizer to do its thing and spread awareness about the whole effort via the automatic edit summaries generated by Synchronizer, which contain a link to Synchronizer and are likely to be noticed by Lua developers all over Wikimedia. In the process I'd not only improve or help improve several Lua modules, but also Synchronizer and the relevant documentation. Thoughts? Support? Objections? Thanks!
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Thoughts:
- I'm terribly ashamed that I haven't tested Multilingual Templates and Modules yet! I have no good excuse. I should really do it as soon as possible.
- If this work can be a step towards exploring how the unification of templates or models works in a way will be useful for the age of true support for global templates in the software, then it sounds like a very good idea.
Hi!
- Were you able to give it a try? What templates/modules have you developed? Perhaps I can help you get them "globalized"!
- I think this work would help towards true support for global templates/modules because such global templates/modules would surely require code designed and ready to run with no modifications (other than the config) in every wiki, which is exactly what Multilingual Templates and Modules and Synchronizer requires.
Cheers!