Dear Archers, just some words on the happenings on the Main Page i18n we are doing at ArchWiki.
Translations have started. Hope more people will join this translation work for the other languages. the actual news: ---------------- the bottom navigation bar (navigatearchlinux) was extended to take additional links in a second line. this is intended for links that are only usefull for people reading the main page of one language (but not the other languages). if you like, we can also make this be the first line and the general links the second line. if you want it changed, feel free to express yourself. i'm reading this mailinglist on a regular basis (when i'm online :-) ) the template is here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Navigatearchlinux note that it now contains {{{1}}} in it. this is the first variable that is passed to it. just to refresh your knowledge on mediawiki template happenings: a template is invoked using this strucutre: {{Template Name|First Variable|Second Variable|...}} the navigation bar takes additional contents as first variable. example: global main page has this code in it now: {{navigatearchlinux|}} this means the first variable is empty (no text in it) but it exists (because there is a pipe here) the french main page i have extended by 2 additional links to illustrate the usage of this structure - like this: {{navigatearchlinux| [http://archlinuxfr.org/ ArchLinux FR Portal] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [http://wiki2.archlinuxfr.org/ Wiki de ArchLinux FR] }} the first variable here is this 2 links with the separation pipe. note that we MUST use the <nowiki> to have this pipe interpreted as normal char and not variable separator from mediawiki. see yourself: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page_(Français) feel free to extend the {{navigatearchlinux}} on the language main pages with the links coresponding to the language the page is in. that's it about this subject. another thing is the translation of the wiki navigation bar on the top. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain i have created coresponding templates. to translate, go to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-de http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-fr http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-pt-BR http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-pt-PT http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-ru http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-zh-CN http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Template:Newpagelinksmain-zh-TW translate it (only the text between the ''' '''), and then on the coresponding main page, replace {{newpagelinksmain}} by {{newpagelinksmain-$lang}} . voilà! this should be enough to have it translated. when you did so, please email me to protect this templates. have fun - multilingual! greetings, Damir -- I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.
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