Template:Autotranslate
 |
This template has been protected from editing to prevent vandalism. Please discuss changes on the talk page or request unprotection. |
 Warning: | This page is shared between multiple wikis. All changes to this page will be automatically copied to all wikis listed in the left side bar. To avoid unnecessary page regeneration and server load, changes should be tested on the page's sandbox. |
 | Uses Lua: |
This template is used as a part of the larger mechanism to show a template content in the user's interface language. It allows you to set up set of language subtemplates and call proper subtemplate based on users chosen language. All parameters passed to Autotranslate will be passed to the subtemplates. See Help:Autotranslate for help on the whole process. In most cases to use this template, you can use the following code snippet:
{{#invoke:Autotranslate|autotranslate|base={{subst:PAGENAME}}/i18n}}
The template automatically sets the following categories: Category:Autotranslated templates
Usage
{{Autotranslate
|base =
}}
Template parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
base | Translations Page | Name of the template's translations page, like "Template:Information". Usually can use base={{subst:PAGENAME}}. | empty | required |
... | Any additional parameter passed to {{Autotranslate}} will be passed to {{Autotranslate}}'s subtemplates. Parameter names are case independent and the subtemplates will only see lower case names. | empty | optional | |
lang | Language | display language | {{int:lang}} | optional |
|
<templatedata>JSON</templatedata> ./. {{TemplateBox}}
TemplateData is a way to store information about template parameters (the description of those and of the whole template) for both humans and machines. It is used by VisualEditor and possibly other tools like Upload Wizard. Existing template documentation Newly created template documentation and imports Wikipedia's help about TemplateData • Commons-specific information This template is used as a part of the larger mechanism to show a template content in the user's interface language. It allows you to set up set of language subtemplates and call proper subtemplate based on users chosen language. All parameters passed to Autotranslate will be passed to the subtemplates. See “Help:Autotranslate” for help on the whole process.
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Additional information
The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the Template namespace
The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users
Placement: At the top of the page
Relies on:
Module:Autotranslate
See also
- {{LangSwitch}} for all-translations-on-one-page template i18n mechanism template.
- {{Multilingual link}} chooses link to Wikipedia article in the user interface language.
Localization
This template is not intended to be localized.
Used by Templates using Autotranslate for internationalisation and Templates using the Translate extension for internationalisation.
How to convert a template
Before you apply this template, first you have to prepare the template.
Pick a template
—See for example Template:Cc-by-1.0 before changes.
First you have to pick a template to autotranslate.
In this documentation, we will name our "selected template" as: Template:Template name
- See Commons:Template i18n for a list of templates needing translation or translated.
Create a layout template
—See for example Template:Apache/layout.
You must create a layout template, named Template:Template name/layout, to contain the layout of all language versions of the template. The easiest way to do this is to copy a layout template of a similar template.
This template should not add any categories when transcluded.
Convert existing language versions
—See for example Template:Apache/en.
All versions must be subpages of Template:Template name, and this name must use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language –ISO 639 language code–.
- For example, the Spanish subpage must be named
Template:Template name/es
Usually the English-language template links to the main template –Template:Template name–. This is incorrect, point it instead to the Template:Template name/en subpage.
Each language version of the template should be checked and converted to use the layout template –Template:Template name/layout–.
Start with the English language version and compare it to the current template.
Note that everything that is not supposed to be included together with the template, like {{translated tag|cleanup}} or {{documentation}}, must be inside a <noinclude> tag.
Here is the syntax you must use for Template:Template name/<prefix>.
{{Template name/layout
|text=<translated text of the template>
|lang=<prefix>
}}<noinclude>
{{translated tag|license}}
</noinclude>
Create a documentation page
—See for example Template:Apache/doc.
Create a documentation page at Template:Template name/doc. This documentation page should include some code for creating language versions of the template. {{TemplateBox}} has a |il8n=autotranslate option which provides a standard explanation of how to localise an autotranslated template.
Convert the main template
—See for example Template:Apache.
The last step is to enable the template. Be sure to check everything before you enable the template. You can cause a really big mess!
To enable the template, put this code in the template –Template:Template name–.
{{#invoke:Autotranslate|autotranslate|base=template name}}
See also
| 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}} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
|
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:
|
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)
| |
| 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}})
| |||