Template talk:wikivar

template:wikivar

• The template has been expanded with the new "magic words" and examples.
• It contains examples mentioned at WiktionaryZ T: Collation by a certain locale and new magic words.

1. capitalization / decapitalization (errors) can be seen at is:template:wikivar
2. LTR / RTL portability is tested at yi:template:wikivar

• from user talk:Gangleri#wikivar: "Where is there more documentation on this template? Are all these uses sanctioned by the developers, or are large portions likely to be broken? This is pretty amazing stuff."

I did not find much documentation about many "magic words". This is why all links to MediaZilla: have been added.

I used intuitive syntax. Please take a look at is:template:wikivar to find out what works and what does not (transclusion of special pages is activated for some special pages only; capitalization / decapitalization neads fixing).

• Best regards Gangleri | w: Th | T 18:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Connel MacKenzie T C 18:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Collation by a certain locale

→ search MediaZilla for collation
→→ bugzilla:00164 – "Support collation by a certain locale (sorting order of characters)"
→→ duplicates of 00164: 00353, 00608, 01304, 02489, 02602, 02818, 03343, 04622, 04963

required templates

• "template:wikivar" tests capitalization / decapitalization and MediaWiki:Linktrail functionality and requires

1. template:alphabet upper case/en
   the template is used to test {{LC:}} and MediaWiki:Linktrail in the "content language"
   there is no syntax yet for "multi character entities": hr:template:alphabet upper case/hr contains "ABCČĆDDžĐEFGHIJKLLjMNNjOPRSŠTUVZŽ"
2. template:alphabet lower case/en
   the template is used to test {{UC:}} and MediaWiki:Linktrail in the "content language"
   there is no syntax yet for "multi character entities": hr:template:alphabet lower case/hr contains "abcčćddžđefghijklljmnnjoprsštuvzž"
3. template:diacritics/en
   "diacritics" was a "bad" choice; In Swedish "åäö I would not consider letters with diacritics, since they are letters in their own right only (not completely as in German)..." (Sannab)
   diacritics/en (and the corresponding templates in other languages) should contain all non basic Latin with characters code less then hex 7F of the "content language" (from "academic" point of view; loaned characters should probably be in special characters/en).
   the template is used to test {{LCFIRST:}} in the "content language" (this makes only sense if diacritics/en starts with a upper case character)"
   bugzilla:04119#c2 shows an example where linktrail is broken depending on the first character after a link
4. template:special characters/en
   the template is used to test MediaWiki:Linktrail in the "content language"
   bugzilla:04119#c2 shows an example where linktrail is broken depending on the first character after a link
5. template:alphabet sort order/en – tbd (tbd. to be defined) – for categories the definition of "category character headers" will be required; such headers can contain multiple characters; the syntax will probably require separator(s); line by line specification would facilitate RTL editing
6. template:alphabet sort order (extended)/en – tbd – for "loaned" characters (loan words, surnames etc.)
7. template:numbers/en
   the template is used to test MediaWiki:Linktrail in the "content language"

• "en" should be substituted with the language code for the content language.
• Please note that the template should start with lower case characters at Wiktionaries. Gangleri | w: Th | T 13:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

RFDO discussion: November–December 2014

The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Others (permalink).

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

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Template:wikivar

No transclusions, in content namespaces or elsewhere, and whatever its purpose is supposed to be, I think pages like mw:Help:Magic words and Special:Version fulfil it better. — Keφr 16:00, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Blimey, kill, it's an awful mess. Renard Migrant (talk) 10:25, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Deleted. — Keφr 22:37, 7 December 2014 (UTC)