Extension talk:Babel/LQT Archive 1

Localisation
I am a translator on translatewiki.net and trying to write documentation for the Babel extension messages. On MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main, could someone let me know whether the variable $1 is the name or the number of a skill level. Also, I assume that this message is the text of a category page. But this text is not appearing on translatewiki.net so I can't check this out. Lloffiwr 19:13, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Links of the codes
Can someone tell me how to manipulate which page the language codes link to? Because now they link to the page witch is named equal to the language code on my MediaWiki. Of course this page doesn't exist and I like to link them to the article about the language in the German Wikipedia. --Sannaj 15:53, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

categories
Can someone please provide an example how the configuration of $wgBabelCategoryNames may look like because I do not really understand the explanaition for it and everything I configure produces big bullshit and many categotries I have to delete later on. --DaSch 19:52, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

User boxes
Will the parser function support user boxes, like the old Babel template did? Like this: . This does not currently work.Danmichaelo 21:43, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Autocreated categories
It looks like all the categories were autocreated as soon as this was deployed. I modified MediaWiki:babel-autocreate-text-levels to change the text but it doesn't seem to have affected any of the existing categories. Is there any way to change all categories that have already been auto-created? --Yair rand 09:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Bots... I don't know whether it makes sense to use the MediaWiki message as a template to let sysop update description, but you could propose it on bugzilla for the future. In he meanwhile, configuration must be set up with care before enabling everything. --Nemo 21:20, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Version
Why do I get version 1.4.1 instead of the newest, when downloading the files? Also, access to development version is locked. Heinrich krebs 15:32, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Between proficiency 0 and 1
So, what if you're not a 0, but also not a 1? For example, you have some grasp of a language, but rely on machine translation to get the parts you don't understand? There should be some recognition for languages that are at beginner levels of proficiency. I suggest that level 0 be redefined to include beginners, since otherwise it would not make sense to bother to indicate level 0 proficiency if you had no proficiency at all. Badon 10:03, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It actually does and someone even feels it's very useful. I disagree with your proposal because 0 is 0, not 0.01 or any positive value; 1 can mean everything depending on your scale (as well as the word "basic"), therefore – although some users ironically use the 0.5 level on wikis with 3 (or even 4 and 5) + 2 levels – you should just use level 1 and specify what you mean in your user page. Don't be too strict, I see presumptuous users that put a level 2 for very basic knowledge of some languages they've never studied. Nemo 10:27, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Colours
It would be nice if the colours followed some kind of natural colour-scale. For the most commons ones, you have: Tt's too much jumping forward and back between blue and green. And then the yellow 4 and red 5 in completely different colours than the 1,2,3,N blue-green scale. At least the grey zero is reasonable.
 * 1, light blue
 * 2, blue-green
 * 3, back to blue
 * N, green again

I know the css is locally adjustable, but it should be better if the colours "out of the box" would have been chosen with some thought. Boivie 22:34, 16 December 2011 (UTC)


 * FYI, I have changed the default colours in to a red to green scheme (except for 5), more or less based on colors used on Commons. SPQRobin 17:47, 25 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Testing colours:


 * Thanks, that makes much more sense. Boivie 11:19, 27 December 2011 (UTC)