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→Newsletter templates (June/2017): Yes, we could make a centralized newsletter with all languages, but there will be large downsides. It would be better to preloade blanks for each language.
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:::: I got around to polish it a bit more now: [[User:Johan G/Template:This months newsletter]] | :::: I got around to polish it a bit more now: [[User:Johan G/Template:This months newsletter]] | ||
:::: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 12:32, 19 November 2017 (EST) | :::: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 12:32, 19 November 2017 (EST) | ||
::::hi! If you Johan that you're more experienced can prepare Newsletter templates and pages to facilitate translations without need to create descentralised templates and duplicated pages, it would be nice and step forward to non English-speaker users. What you think about be able to do it for December Newsletter? Thank you so much for your work for templates, pages and the wiki!--[[User:Catalanoic|Catalanoic]] ([[User talk:Catalanoic|talk]]) 13:15, 10 December 2017 (EST) | ::::hi! If you Johan that you're more experienced can prepare Newsletter templates and pages to facilitate translations without need to create descentralised templates and duplicated pages, it would be nice and step forward to non English-speaker users. What you think about be able to do it for December Newsletter? Thank you so much for your work for templates, pages and the wiki!--[[User:Catalanoic|Catalanoic]] ([[User talk:Catalanoic|talk]]) 13:15, 10 December 2017 (EST) | ||
::::: Sorry for the late reply. | |||
::::: ''Yes'', a centralized newsletter can be done rather easily. We could add {{tl|LangSwitch}} templates to the sections in the newsletter template (hopefully users adding other sections to a particular newsletter will see what is going on and copy it). It should then be a matter of creating an empty page with a language prefix and [[Help:Glossary#T|transclude]] the newsletter there as if it was a template. | |||
::::: ''The downsides'' are that the newsletter will be more complicated to edit (raising the threshold for new editors and stopping a few of them), that we most likely will not be able to edit just a section (as the section headings will need to be in the language templates as the need to be translated as well), and that the page will be larger to retrieve as you will always download all languages to view or edit the page. I do not think it will be worth it. | |||
::::: ''However'', if we get to the point that we have a template preloading a newsletter blank as discussed earlier in this topic (which seems very likely), we should probably have one for each of the languages someone can translate it to. I think it would be much, much better to centralize this template. | |||
::::: ''In short:'' With the approach above the newsletter can be made so that there is a centralized version. But I do not think it is worth the large downsides and think that would be better to instead have a centralized template preloading a newsletter blank for a specific language. | |||
::::: —[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 23:48, 21 July 2018 (EDT) | |||
== Using Template:Convert == | == Using Template:Convert == | ||