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template riddled with <translate>[edit]


Looks like done -- Ата (talk) 22:30, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Links localisation[edit]



Replace {{Localized link}} with {{Pg}}[edit]

If nobody objects, I propose to replace {{Localized link}} with {{Pg}} throughout. The difference is:

  • {{Localized link}} links to a target language version in the user's preferred language, if available, or else falls back on English
  • {{Pg}} links to a target language version in the current page language, then falls back in turn to the user's preferred language or finally to English.

With a lot of languages there are translated versions of many Commons pages, but only the section headings have actually been translated. In effect, most of the content is in English. A Ukrainian-speaking user may understand Russian but not English. If they are reading a Russian version of a page and click on a link in this template,

  • {{Localized link}} would take them to a (mostly English) Ukrainian translation if present, or failing that to the English version
  • {{Pg}} would take them to a Russian version if present, then to the (mostly English) Ukrainian translation if present, and as a last resort to the English version.

Bottom line is that with {{Pg}} users will tend to keep seeing pages in the language they have chosen to read, even if that is not their preferred language, until they choose to change languages. They will not keep being dragged back to English. Comments? Aymatth2 (talk) 17:41, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Since there were no objections, I have implemented the change. If you select a well-support language, but not your preferred language, you can now click around between versions of the different pages in that language using the template. The current page will be bolded in the template. Aymatth2 (talk) 18:11, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]