Template talk:BabelMsg

How to use this? --Xeeron 05:12, 13 April 2006 (CDT)



Placed inside Template:EN-1 maybe Skuld  05:55, 13 April 2006 (CDT)


 * That thing messed up the screen for me. Placed nowiki tags around it. --Xeeron 07:52, 13 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Don't use it. It's unfinished and ugly.  If you want, copy code directly from my user page d-: -PanSola 10:35, 13 April 2006 (CDT)

Done. Hopefully documentation is self-explanatory.

I tried adding an entry for eng-N, and it seems to have automatically created a category - but not for other languages I've tried (tlh). Is their built in logic to only attach the category to certain language codes? --161.88.255.140 13:24, 18 April 2006 (CDT)
 * It's supposed to create a category unless it's level 0. No point in categorizing ppl who can't speak a language.  Let me know which one is behaving erratically and I'll check the code. -PanSola 13:36, 18 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Okay, that would explain it, the other one was at level 0. But on a related note, I noticed on my user page that you corrected the language used from "eng" to "en"; is there a reason to prefer ISO 639-1 over the ISO 639-2 codes?  I had expected the newer standard to be the one in use; but I'm not familiar enough with the ISO community to know if the ISO-2 simply never caught on. --161.88.255.140 13:50, 18 April 2006 (CDT)


 * Actually, the alpha-3 codes are only supposed to be used when the alpha-2 codes aren't available, so "en" is preferable to "eng". They added redundant alpha-3 codes because certain librarians and their software vendors were too lazy to update their software to use the alpha-2 codes instead of their bizarre alpha-3/B codes. F G 15:49, 18 April 2006 (CDT)