if i add [[fr:infrench]] to a template wikipedia produces an error. i'm wondering what happens if you do this with a category.
-solo.
solo turn wrote:
if i add [[fr:infrench]] to a template wikipedia produces an error. i'm wondering what happens if you do this with a category.
Please provide the exact error message.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 6/19/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
solo turn wrote:
if i add [[fr:infrench]] to a template wikipedia produces an error. i'm wondering what happens if you do this with a category.
Please provide the exact error message.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
the problem is not the error message. the problem is that you get two "french" links on the side, one for the page, one for the template. there seems to be some "misconception" in this.
imo just one language link should be produced, the one of the article. no templates language is important. or language is forbidden in templates.
-solo.
solo turn wrote:
On 6/19/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
solo turn wrote:
if i add [[fr:infrench]] to a template wikipedia produces an error. i'm wondering what happens if you do this with a category.
Please provide the exact error message.
the problem is not the error message. the problem is that you get two "french" links on the side, one for the page, one for the template. there seems to be some "misconception" in this.
So it *doesn't* produce an error, but rather normal expected functioning.
imo just one language link should be produced, the one of the article. no templates language is important. or language is forbidden in templates.
The markup from the template is included into the page you included it into. That includes any categories, language links, etc.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 6/20/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
solo turn wrote:
On 6/19/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
solo turn wrote:
if i add [[fr:infrench]] to a template wikipedia produces an error. i'm wondering what happens if you do this with a category.
Please provide the exact error message.
the problem is not the error message. the problem is that you get two "french" links on the side, one for the page, one for the template. there seems to be some "misconception" in this.
So it *doesn't* produce an error, but rather normal expected functioning.
it produces one ... but i forgot which one. and you upset the people on wikipedia by doing it again.
recipe is trivial: - store a language in a template - update a page which uses the template --> error. but it seems to store the content. so just ugly.
imo just one language link should be produced, the one of the article. no templates language is important. or language is forbidden in templates.
The markup from the template is included into the page you included it into. That includes any categories, language links, etc.
if you use 3 templates which also exist in french then you have:
english french french french french german turkish
on the left side. what should this mean to a user? you can hover over the link then you see which one is the template, which one is the article ... but if you think this is a great feature, i have no problem, no than i know it :)
-solo.
solo turn wrote:
On 6/20/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
So it *doesn't* produce an error, but rather normal expected functioning.
it produces one ... but i forgot which one. and you upset the people on wikipedia by doing it again.
recipe is trivial:
- store a language in a template
- update a page which uses the template
--> error. but it seems to store the content. so just ugly.
What error? From what you said, it's functioning normally -- including all the interlanguage links you provided.
If you don't want them there, don't put them there. Garbage in, garbage out.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
"solo turn" soloturn@gmail.com wrote in message news:e1d4f8cd05061912193649b54b@mail.gmail.com...
if i add [[fr:infrench]] to a template wikipedia produces an error. i'm wondering what happens if you do this with a category.
Having read the subsequent conversation, I think I see what the trouble is.
You appear to think that the link you show above is some kind of "meta-information" **about** the template, saying that an equivalent template exists elsewhere. Alas this is not how it works: the system is not nearly so subtle. The links make it **look** as if that is what is happening, but until the MediaWiki database is altered to store such "meta-information" separately this will not actually be possible.
Every article your template is being used will have the text of that template simply added into it. This means that if you put a Category designation into a template, every article which transcludes the template will be attached to that Category. The inter-wiki links work the same way.
Thus there is no way **currently** to show that an equivalent template exists in another Wikipedia: you have to add a comment to the Talk Page.
HTH HAND
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