Wiktionary talk:Votes/2014-08/Migrating from Template:context to Template:cx

Rationale
--Dan Polansky (talk) 08:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 1. "cx" is shorter to type and read than "context" or "label", making the context itself such as "colloquial" stand out more, such as in "cx|colloquial" vs. "context|colloquial".
 * 2. The provision of language directly without the use of "lang=" is used by and ; if  becomes the standard template via Wiktionary:Votes/2014-08/Migrating from Template:term to Template:m, making  work the same way would be worthwhile.


 * already has the syntax you're proposing for, and it's the same length. Why not switch straight over to it instead? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:10, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Why should the idea of "label" be preferred over "context"? Whether already has anything is immaterial; copying the code from  to  is a cinch. What matters is the syntax we want to see in the wikicode. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:15, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I prefer "label" because so many of these labels aren't contexts, like "transitive" and "intransitive", or regional dialect labels. But the main point is, surely it's easier to convert straight to  than to convert it first to, then change how the syntax of  works, then change the tag to , which will leave a lot of tags broken for a long time until a bot gets around to adapting them to the new syntax. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:25, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Please read the vote again. We won't be converting to ; we will be converting straight to . If this passes, we first make sure is nowhere used, then change the template code, and then run bots to get . --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, but it still seems faster to just go straight to . —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Totally, this vote needs to recognise that what it's proposing already exists. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * No, there is no consensus now to go to and abandon all other markup for context labels (,, . Going to  is technically almost as fast as going to . But if we actually want to see  in the wikicode, then fine. But it is all about what we want to see in the wikicode; there is no technical necessity to see one thing or another. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:42, 23 August 2014 (UTC)


 * The word "label" is more general, properly describing some of the tags we use, such as uncountable, intransitive, etc., which are not really "contexts". --WikiTiki89 14:00, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I created Votes/2014-08/Templates context and label to clarify this. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:44, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I have stared the vote, since the poll is not going anywhere. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:41, 5 October 2014 (UTC)