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Closing tvar needed

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi @GVarnum-WMF: Could you please add a closing tvar in T:34 for tvar "1"? --Ameisenigel (talk) 12:39, 1 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Ameisenigel - apologies for that error - all fixed now. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 16:13, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Displaytitle

Latest comment: 2 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Why displaytitle instead of built-in ability to translate page name? Wargo (talk) 13:09, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

For various reasons - sometimes the wiki page name is not as descriptive as we would like - or with the namespace can come off a little confusing to people less familiar with wikis. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 02:15, 16 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Note this practice has changed such that pages using {{DISPLAYTITLE}} tag no longer have their page titles setup for translation as well. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 05:06, 29 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

remove duplication of the list of namespaces

Latest comment: 5 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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Please remove the list of lines from

;<translate><!--T:19--> Main namespace General content,...

to

:<translate><!--T:28-->
[[Special:MyLanguage/Archive:Main|Archived]] or historical content no longer in active use on this wiki and available for migration to another wiki (generally [[:m:Special:MyLanguage/Main Page|Meta-Wiki]])

since it already duplicates the contents described on the referenced page Wikimedia:Namespaces_guidelines which is the right place.

Yes, the page of guidelines is complete enough and concentrates all the informations. Doing so, it removes the additional work for translators, making also difficult to update each pages synchronized when modification occur either on the main page or one of its duplicated. --Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 12:10, 27 May 2024 (UTC)Reply