Author: vinhtantran
Description:
As a recent discussion about the translation of "Template:" namespace on Vietnamese Wikipedia http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%C4%90%E1%BB%81_ngh%E1%BB%8B_cho_%C3%BD_ki%E1%BA%BFn/Thay_%C4%91%E1%BB%95i_hai_thu%E1%BA%ADt_ng%E1%BB%AF_%22Li%C3%AAn_k%E1%BA%BFt%22_v%C3%A0_%22Ti%C3%AAu_b%E1%BA%A3n%22, the members unanimously agreed that in Vietnamese and the translation from "Template" to "Tiêu bản" cannot reflect the true meaning of that term on Wikipedia and make newcomers feel difficult to understand what it is.
Consequently, the vi.wikipedia community started a voting on changing the name of this namespace. The voting lasts for over a month, and the result is "Bản_mẫu".
I, on behalf of vi.wikipedia community, file this bug to ask for changing namespace "Template:" to "Bản_mẫu:". About other Vietnamese Wikimedia projects, it will take time to gain consensus on all of them, but we hope that this namespace should be changed on MediaWiki software, too (except those existing projects), because, as I said above, the translation from "Template" to "Tiêu bản" cannot reflect the true meaning of that term on Wikipedia (the First members of our projects have misunderstand the meaning of "template", and translation with the meaning in Biology field).
I'd like to hear opinion from the developers.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement