https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55998
--- Comment #2 from Helder <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #1) > How does ptwiki decide which language variant to use in an article? In general, the editors should use the variant adopted by the first editor o a page, unless they are doing substantial changes to the text (as in 50% or more), The exception to this rule is the case of articles tightly related to a specific (Portuguese speaking) country, where it is preferred to use the variant of that country. This is documented at https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Vers%C3%B5es_da_l%C3%ADngua_portuguesa Consequently, since there are infoboxes containing information written in pt-BR, and infoboxes written in pt, in order to use data from Wikidata without suddenly changing part of the article contents from pt-BR to pt (or viceversa), we should be able to specify the language variant to be used for the information obtained from Wikidata. For an example, consider the citation template [[pt:Template:Citar web]], which has a parameter "lang" (accepting the values "pt" and "br"). This parameter is passed to [[pt:Template:Língua-meta]] together with the parameter "língua3" (the code of the language used in the citation, e.g. "cs"), to get the description of the language in the variant selected. E.g. the code "cs" is converted to "tcheco" if "lang=br" and to "checo" if "lang=pt". As you can imagine, citation templates like these are used everywhere, and the lang parameter seems to be used 4872 times, according to http://toolserver.org/~kolossos/templatetiger/template-parameter.php?template=citar%20web&lang=ptwiki Another example is [[pt:Template:MONTHNAME]], which also has a "lang" parameter to decide if the name should be in lowercase (pt-BR) or uppercase (other variants), and is transcluded 80,000+ times: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:MONTHNAME?action=info&uselang=en#mw-pageinfo-transclusions -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
