User:Xbony2/T3

T3 is a project with the goal of making a third iteration of the translation system on this wiki.

Goals
The goal of T3 is to combine the pros of our first translation system (using no extension) with our current second translation system (using Extension:Translate), and to minimize the cons.

"T1" pros

 * All pages are translatable; users don't have to ask admins for help.
 * No special mark-up or templates are needed for the most part.

T1 cons

 * Pages are not every marked when the base page is changed. Because of this, translated pages are never (or are rarely) updated.
 * All pages are translatable; new pages and stubs don't have any protection.
 * There's no abstraction. Untranslated templates are often used by mistake.

"T2" pros

 * Templates are largely abstracted; translation is simpler.
 * Portions of pages that are not translated (like version numbers, templates, etc) are updated automatically.
 * Outdated portions are marked in the interface, and how much of the page is translated is noted at the top of the page.
 * Translations/translation statistics are very well organized with automatically generated pages like Special:LanguageStats/zh-cn and Special:SupportedLanguages/zh-cn.

T2 cons

 * Only pages that are marked up can be translated.
 * Special markup is needed on translatable pages. Markup makes wikitext much harder to navigate and edit (newbies [and often experienced staff] often mess it up)
 * Extension:Translate is a third-party extension and cannot be modified to the FTB Wiki's needs as easily.
 * Editing statistics related to translation are often overinflated, as translating a small page can take as many as ten edits, while simply creating that page in English make just take one or two.
 * Gamepedia doesn't like the Translate extension much.