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Contents 1 Templates 2 Linking to Wikipedia 3 Redirects 4 Nice rewrite 5 Linking to a particular definition 6 interlanguage

[edit] Templates

I added the link for Templates because I could never find the link when I was editing a page, so I thought I would put it here as a suggestion. -- Kiwiinapanic 06:54, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This site (and page) really needs a Page Template. And I'm not talking about those little {{}} things that are called "templates" in Wiki; I'm talking about a full "straw-man / fill-in-the-blanks" template page. Wiktionary:Article template 128.107.253.41 05:52, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to Wikipedia

The suggestion for linking to Wikipedia seems not to be in-line with current practice.

In addition, is there some way of automatically generating the Link to Wikipedia article on... text which does seem to be used currently, to save it being repeated (and taking up bytes!) on every page that contains a link? trunkie 14:19, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There is, see w:Wikipedia:Template namespace. I don't know if anyone has currently created a template for this use, but it wouldn't hurt to make your own. You could probably name it something like Template:WpLink (short is good, hell you could probably make it just Template:Wp), content would be something like [[w:{{{2}}}|Wikipedia article on {{{1}}}]] and usage would be {{WpLink|Word|WpArticle}}, i.e. {{WpLink|cricket|cricket (sport)}} would output Wikipedia article on cricket. Also, it's best to keep things simple. You don't need to include something like a ===See Also=== header, that makes it harder to include any similar templates. --Jshadias 15:17, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I use either {{wikipedia}}, {{pedialite}} or {{wikipedia2}}. I don't think they've been around for a year, but they have been active for a while now. --Connel MacKenzie 09:14, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

What's the general behavior on redirecting commonly misspelled words to the correct ones? Should I redirect pages like irrelevent to irrelevant, or just leave them? --Jshadias 15:17, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nice rewrite

I think the rewrite Ncik did here was a good thing. I like especially that it remained (properly) short, as it is a brief introduction. It now seems like a coherent page. Well done. --Connel MacKenzie T C 08:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linking to a particular definition

Is there a facility to link to a particular wicktionary definition, rather than simply one of the part of speech section headers?

Not yet. — Vildricianus 22:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] interlanguage

This is me or there is not yet a way to make link from one language subdomain to an other? Could be useful for heading like ===Translations===. For exemple, see Happy_New_Year. Someone have try to link unexisting english entries to original language ones but this work is actualy lost even if it was, I think, a good idea. In wikis, multilingualism is at its very beginning. No multilingual account, got to manage an account by spoken language. No multinlingual search nor the possibility to ask to do the same search in an other language. I constantly have to re-type the subdomain myself to quickly switch from languages to languages. w:fr:Utilisateur:Lacrymocéphalefr:w:Utilisateur:Lacrymocéphale (a consequence: no possibility to aim a wikipedia page of an other language) 82.245.156.14 20:00, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

This can be done with {{t}}. See Wiktionary:About Hungarian#Hungarian translations for English words for some examples of how this works. --EncycloPetey 20:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

For the interlingual link, it was my "mistake". I still don't really understood why [[fr:bonne année]] was not good and need an underscore instead of a space... No it doesn't! I try back what I have tried before getting upset and it all works! Driving me nut...

But you shouldn't link from the English page for Happy New Year to the French Wikipedia page about the celebration. You should only link to Wiktionnaire in the translation. You can see how this is done on the page now. --EncycloPetey 20:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

It's a link to the french wiktionary page for the expression in the translation part. And it is now added.

I see that you have added the 't' template since. Thank you. I think it's better than the "(fr)" trick.

I don't think it is ever advisable to point fr.wiki to en.wikt:. You are supposed to point to fr.wikt:'s copy of those words, from fr.wikipedia, since Wiktionnaire has a copy of English words and French words, there is little point in explicitly confusing readers. --Connel MacKenzie 20:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I won't do encyclopédik link from en.wp to fr.wik or such. It was just because there is no cross-account. Some one working on wikipédia might work on wiktionary one day and maybe in several languages. This was a community contest cross linking I was trying to my french user page on wikipédia. I don't want to register myself on every "sub" project! :)

I'm sorry for having mixing subjects.

• first, I thought there was a problem with interlingual links inside the wiktionary.org domain. There was no problem, the [[fr:something]] is working well. But this mistake and message bring me the 't' template usage knowledge and it's a great deal so thank you.
• second, I was thinking about the multilingual wikis community and the difficulty we have to manage our accounts. I thought I could sign with a link to my fr.wikipedia.org user page to save the time of creating an account here but without let unsigned my entry in the discussion. It's actualy impossible with simplicity like with a [[w:fr:Utilisateur:Lacrymocéphale]]. It could be called "an utopic RFE" :)