Rich Farmbrough
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:::I do not think we need that. We are too small to work with different city templates for each country. Does not look sustainable to me. One working template for settlements of any kind is enough. Please do not go to importing blindly anything that has been dumped into any of our entries. Lets have some reasoning about what we need. '''[[Mtumiaji:Kipala|Kipala]] ([[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Kipala|majadiliano]])''' 15:05, 28 Septemba 2011 (UTC)
:::: I am all for reasoning. What is your concern here? The risk of vandalism when we have, say 240, location map templates? Essentially these type of templates perform a database function and are designed to reduce workload. There are suggestions of better ways to do things, including a separate data wiki, or an interwiki resource for templates like commons. These need commitment from the WMF to happen, so they are currently pipe-dreams. I am interested in (among other things) a simple to use Wiki in any language, and believe that templates are one way of doing this. They can also share effort across many languages. This approach is used on the Nepali Wikipedia, for example. '''''[[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Rich Farmbrough|Rich Farmbrough]]''''' <small></small>
::::: Rich, we have been with the template "settlements" for places from a lots of countries and it works ok. Copying something just because it is on en:wiki is not a good idea. It has to be workable. We are very few people here who do entries. I do not see the capacity to remember that this or that country might have a special template. Situation is different on big wikis because they have groupsof people working on one country. Not here. EG I did the Mauretania entries in 2006 and returned now after years to correct a new machine translated new city entry. I see no need for having to remember special Mauretania templates. Rich I think you can do very valuable assitance to this wiki by working with us becuse you are good at these templates. That means to me consulting with us about what we need. There is no point flooding this site with unnecessary untranslated stuff. Please, lets work together! '''[[Mtumiaji:Kipala|Kipala]] ([[Majadiliano ya mtumiaji:Kipala|majadiliano]])''' 20:32, 28 Septemba 2011 (UTC)
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