Langbar template: ideas and extension requests
Great, thanks. I was wondering where it had gone tbh :P
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These extensions have worked like a charm in my template: User:Masked_Turk/Sandbox/Langbar
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It'll seek out direct subpages and display them in list-form. I just need feedback on design and styling now that the functionality is all there.
(Talk | Edits) •Very nice :). I'd like to implement this straight away. It looks amazing :). Other solutions I have investigated have been much more complicated, involving interwikis or bots to maintain the subpage links, etc. so this is really a godsend.
In terms of style, I have disabled the background hover because I don't think it quite looks right. I also think a character seperator like '·' works better than | which takes too much vertical space.
I have tried to implement the {{Langbar|main}} on the Home page. I have also implemented the Polski page: Home/Polski, but it's not showing up on the main page. Can you take a look please?
Unfortunately it seems that Extension:Subpage_Fun does not recognise the main article's sub-pages, which means we'll probably have to use a different method for the main article's English page: sorry about that.
I've altered the stylings to your description as best I can, can you check it's as you imagined?
(Talk | Edits) •Another thought is about category translation - what's the best way to handle this? I'm assuming it'll function in the same way as pages, so I can create Game/Polski and put the Langbar in the category page. Then this will display the game pages written in Polish.
You just reminded me about categories, so I've added Category:Articles with translations and [[:{{{language name}}} translations]] to the relevant parts of the template.
Regarding category pages... hmm, the template looks for subpages of the article it's in, so if you put {{Langbar|main}} in Category:Games, the template will show the link to the Polish version of the category page. I could amend the template to categorise Polish (etc.) translations in Category:Games/Polski, which would achieve what I think you're after?
(Talk | Edits) •Right, done that. Problem #2 with the extension is that it doesn't seem to notice subpages in Category:, Template: etc. either. Unless I'm doing it wrong. I've asked the extension creator over at mediawiki.
For now though, workaround: the category translations appear as sub-categories on the page: see Category:Games for e.g.
(Talk | Edits) •Let's wait for a response - it must be a switch to allow for these namespaces. If you don't hear anything back in a couple of days we can do a workaround.
Right, I *think* I have a fix.
Delve into LocalSettings.php and append the following line to the end of the file:
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array_fill(0, 500, true); //enables subpages for all articles, so the extension works!
(Talk | Edits) •See for yourself ^_^ - Just going about removing the pl from the list, through the ingenious use of regular expression commands. Shouldn't take long.
(Talk | Edits) • (Talk | Edits) •Great, works well on the home screen. It doesn't appear to be working on the category page though? http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Category:Game
Is there any way to have the full list of languages displayed whether it is Home or Home/Polski? Is there an alternative to a link for 'Return to the English language article'?
- Category fixed. Forgot to add the : for categories, so it added them to the categories instead of displaying them as links :P
- Show list of langs in subpages: Sorted. Template will link other langs if available, otherwise will link back to route article. Took quite a bit of rearrangement :P
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