Thread:Support/More efficient text generation

Hi. There are many system messages like MediaWiki:Wm-license-cc-by-sa-2.5-br-text/en, with variations for each license type, each license version, each country, probably many hundreds of combinations in all. Translating each and every one of them in so many languages, even with extensive copying and pasting, is a huge waste of time and manual work. This can easily be simplified by having one single text with a few parameters in it. Then, for each language, it would be enough to translate that text, its various parameters, and a list of country names. Instead of spending hours of pure boredom, it could take just a few minutes to finish the job. Plus, whenever we need to update or add a set of licenses (a new version, a new country, etc.) we could do that quickly and painlessly, unlike now. Also the result would be guaranteed to be uniform and many mistakes could be avoided (who and when will spot in so many pages a wrong version number or a wrong country name?).

After all, the translators are human beings, not machines. Let's make it easier for them when it is possible. And in this case it clearly is possible.