GuildWiki talk:Suggestions/I18n template

I LOVE this idea! &mdash; Powersurge360 Violencia  03:14, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * My suggestion for a place for interwiki language links and such would be in that bottom section of the page outside the content, where there is the rating, permalink, and sharing links. Since that is really part of the skin (Monaco only afaik) I would suggest putting such links there. Perhaps some wikia people can help us look into it. &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 17:45, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * It's a nice idea in theory, and I'd be all in favor of it if there were more complete wikis of other languages. The problem is that the other language wikis are woefully incomplete.  Most of them have a home page that consists mostly of red links.  The French one is better, but even that is completely missing some very major articles.  For example, Ring of Fire, Raisu Palace, and Jennur's Horde were all edited so much here as to need a massive trimming, but on the French wiki, the articles don't even exist.  I would not want to see a bunch of red links added all over the wiki to foreign language pages that don't exist.  I guess it could probably be implemented to not add the links at all for most pages, but that would make the formatting look rather inconsistent.  Quizzical 01:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I've read some talk on wikia (maybe connected with the transforms wiki) that the Monaco design changed the list of foreign language links in the sidebar to a dropdown because so few people were actually using it. The German GuildWiki actually indexes the english names for most things, so you can install their search plugin to your toolbar and quickly find the article you need that way. (Not that you'd want to, chances that you'll find more info than here are slim.) If PAGENAME can be used in the customization template for monaco (where you can change the nav links in your sidebar), it might be possible to add a GWW link easily, but don't count on me doing that because I'm sticking with Monobook for the time being. --◄mendel► 07:54, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Official wiki
Could we also get a link to the official wiki article..? -{[ PUL ]}- 09:50, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * That would perhaps make sense if the official wiki also gives a link to the article here. Quizzical 19:54, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * There exists a JavaScript function to create links to Guild Wars Wiki that you can put into your own .js file (it's actually modified from a function written for Guild Wars Wiki that creates a link to GuildWiki). I don't think we'd really need it on a site-wide basis, but if enough people asked for it, we probably could implement it.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 20:19, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Clarifications
I'm getting back here a little late but better late dans never.

The thing is, some of you misunderstood the way that interlanguage links works. They do not produce any red links (because it can't know if the page exist or not so no red links). But the first thing is that we dont add interwiki to page that dont exist. It would be stupid. People who said thoses things dont seems to know how interlanguage links works on the big Wikipedia.

Second thing, it can't be your job to do thoses things unless you can switch language of your game to see what are the correct names of things. And even if you would, in french, for exemple, we have a lot more things that are called the same than in english (due to poor translators). Plus, translations of the game seems to change a lot more than english.

And yes, on Monaco (wich i use) interlanguage links are in a drop down and this make impossible to open interlanguage links in new tab or windows. So, Wikia is thinking about making a new preference to let users control how Monaco interlanguage links will be shown.

On Monobook, interlanguage link are listed at bottom of the left column like on Wikipedia. You just have to insert Gwen (Héros) at end of Gwen (GW:EN) article to link to the french wiki. The placements of thoses links is handled by the software. Interlanguage links never show up in the article; they are a special kind of interwikis links. So, that is why we have a few lang_xx parameters in all of our template on fr.guildwars. Thoses parameters are then passed to the I18n template. But that template could be used as is on any page or on page with fewer other language equivalent, the interlanguage links can be added without the use of any template.

Feel free to ask any question needed. — TulipVorlax 08:56, 29 July 2008 (UTC)