Talk:Left 4 Dead 2/Scripting/Script Functions

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(using Template:Message)  I don't understand what are you doing User:THE OWL. Why is the original page with full edit history moved to Left 4 Dead 2/Script Functions/en ??  --Nescius (talk) 0:16, 18 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message)  User: THE OWL and I are working on a template {{MultiPage}} that will get rid of manual work with suffixes in links on the site. I more or less described what and how it works according to the new scheme here.  --Max34 (talk) 0:40, 18 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message)  So I assume that when it’s finished the edit history will stay the original one ?  --Nescius (talk) 12:15, 23 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message)  Don't worry, the history of changes is saved one way or another. We don't create new pages. If the page was moved to Left 4 Dead 2/Script Functions/en, then all the old changes are now located there.  --THE OWL (talk) 17:04, 23 Feb 2023 (UTC)

(using Template:Message)  I want to discuss this thing aswell. Right now editing this wiki page is much more work -- you need to click on more interactive elements just to get to the editing. And when you finish editing, results do not appear on a main page -- you have to click "Purge" in order to update things. This is really inconvenient and why -- just to have a localized help? It is a well established norm to have a technical documentation in English only (since English is the international language), so why bother with localization? This is not a Wikipedia -- this is a technical documentation! To code things you need to know English anyway.

Also this method of localization presents a big problem: data separation. One language page can add information, that will not be transferred to other localized pages automatically. Right now the other page (chineese or whatever zh stands for) hasn't been updated and i doubt it ever will. Documentation needs to stay a documentation, that is, have one exact data set without the need for others to transfer data between pages. Otherwise, people will stick to the most complete version (which is English right now) and multipage functionality will become just a major annoyance (which it is right now).

So, is it really worth the complications to have a localization mechanism that violates the main requirement of the documenation -- to be accurate? I fail to see the real usefulness of the change.  --Xandros (talk) 20:09, 03 Apr 2023 (UTC)