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Also, note that there are robots adding interwiki links, so it isn’t very useful if you do it by hand. It doesn’t hurt either, of course. H. (talk) 10:17, 28 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Regarding your edit to Template:ja-ichi: just so you know, we don't generally do that here. Instead, we add a link from the template page to the talk-page, as at Template:form of. (This goes with how our {{temp}} template links to a template's talk-page rather than to the template page itself.) Not a big deal, though. :-) —RuakhTALK 03:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yes, Connel M has explained me that. It's a different policy from fr.wiktionary.org . I will see if I will add my links on talk page :)
PS : What is the reason of this policy ? Ftiercel 04:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
One reason is that we protect templates that are included in a lot of pages. By putting the documentation on the talk-page, we let all editors help improve it. Another reason is that whenever you edit a template pages, even if your change is within <noinclude>…</noinclude>, the server re-computes all pages that include the template, so we prefer not to edit template pages more than necessary. Finally, it's just how we do it; most wikis put documentation on the template itself, but there's no obvious benefit to that way. Granted, there's a benefit to doing things the way most wikis do; but we're an ornery group. :-P —RuakhTALK 23:34, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
Et, ça fait assez de temps que je ne parle pas français, donc j'essaierai ici. :-)   Une raison est qu'on protège ici les modèles qui se comprennent en beaucoup de pages. En mettant la documentation à la page de discussion, on permet à tous les contribueurs de les modifier. Une autre raison est que chaque fois qu'une modèle se modifie, même si le changement est entre <noinclude> et </noinclude>, le serveur réévalue toutes les pages qui la comprenne, donc on ne préfère pas modifier les modèles plus qu'il n'est nécessaire de le faire. Enfin, c'est simplement notre façon d'être ; la plupart de wikis mettent de la documentation à la page de modèle elle-même, mais il n'y a pas d'avantage évident en faisant ainsi. Bien entendu qu'il existe un avantage en faisant comme la plupart de wikis; mais on est un groupe obstiné ici. :-P —RuakhTALK 23:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
OK :) Ftiercel 10:09, 15 February 2008 (UTC)Reply