Templat:I18n templates/en
<languages/>
I18n templates: | {{multilingual description|lang= |de,en,default=Deutsch/English |fr=français |... }} |
{{de|Deutsch}} {{en|English}} {{fr|français}} ... |
{{LangSwitch|lang= |de,en,default=Deutsch/English |fr=français |... }} |
{{autotranslate}} | {{TNT}} |
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Recommended use at | Categories, galleries | File description pages (deprecated, can be safely replaced by {{Multilingual description}}) | Small templates, whenever the previous options are not suitable (removes the visual indication of the language before each translated text) | Data tables with translated cells or larger templates, when used on pages that do not have language subpages (e.g. not having Main page/en , Main page/de ) and where the language displayed will be automatically determined by the language set in user preferences
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Data tables with translated cells or larger templates, when used on pages that do have language subpages; most of the time these will be pages prepared with the Translate Extension |
Requires JavaScript enabled for folding | Yes | No | |||
Folding can be disabled by user | Yes | No | |||
Folding is done server-side | No | Yes | |||
Folding when at least n languages are provided | 1 (all translations are shown without folding if the preferred language selected by the user has no matching translation) | 4 | 1 | ||
Detection of duplicate, incorrect, or unsupported language codes | Yes | No | Yes | ||
Allows the same translation to be used for several languages | Yes | No | Yes | ||
Supports language fallbacks | No | Yes | No | Yes | |
Collation order of languages (when not folded) | Consistent order by native language name, languages grouped by script:
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As provided by the user in the wikitext (any inconsistent order may be difficult to lookup visually) | N/A | ||
Search indexing issues | No (all translations are included on the same page, however search results may be less relevant with many languages mixed) | Yes (may not index all languages depending on search engines, unless there's a list of links for visiting other languages) | Partially (where used; language subpages of templates are indexed) | No (translated pages should include a <languages/> navigation bar for visiting other languages)
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Page size issues | Yes (may exhaust size or time limits in the wiki parser if many languages are included; larger pages to download for all visitors; slower navigation for visitors with slow Internet access; may be costly for visitors with limited data plans) | No (only the content for the selected language or a suitable fallback language is present in the generated page) | |||
Contains expensive parser functions | No | Yes (unless there's an editable /lang subpage listing all the existing translations selected with a {{LangSwitch}})
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