User:Amire80/Requests for template support
On this page, I try to document the instances in which people asked me for help with templates on wikis in their languages. All of them could be resolved by having a repository of Global templates. I am starting it on September 4, 2021. It happened dozens of times earlier, and I should have documented it, but it's better late than never. Even after I started documenting, there are many more that I didn't have time to document. So this list is just a tiny sample.
2024
[edit]- September: Obolo Incubator, "We will like to have this kind of databox on Wp/ann" (with an example from the Hebrew Wikipedia).
- September: Punjabi Wikipedia—several questions on the "Wikimedia General" Telegram group about localizing the See also template, which was copied from the English Wikipedia, and which powered internally by a Lua module with cryptic code.
- September: Arabic Wikipedia editor asks on the English Wikipedia: "There are templates that I want to translate into my language, but the manual method makes it take more than 3 hours. I don't know why the Content translation tool does not support template translation, If I could use it would only take a few minutes. I want a tool that enables me to translate templates. Is there any help?"
- September: Hard to write in Northern Ndebele in the Incubator, because citation templates don't work.
- September: On Talk:CX, a Brazilian user complains about the inability to translate an article from Portuguese completely because some templates ("predefinitions") are missing from English.
- September: a Russian Wikipedia user wants to translate a template form Tatar.
- August: In the Language community meeting, it came up that not being able to develop infoboxes is one of the blockers to the development of Wikipedia in the Siswati and Ndebele languages.
- June: Request to support the Quotation feature in the English Wikipedia (Template:Quotation) in the Farefare (gur) Wikipedia.
- April: Request for adminship in the Tumbuka Wikipedia mentions people who had to help with templates
- March: Support request on Talk:CX about translating Infoboxes between Arabic and English.
- March: At an online Content Translation workshop for Haitian Creole speakers, infobox templates were described as "impossible to translate".
2023
[edit]- September: Request to editing a protected global module in Tajik and Lezgi Wikipedias. (The module was copied from the Russian Wikipedia, and should have the same functionality in all the languages.)
- June: Betawi Incubator, "a lot of missing templates" (asked on translatewiki).
- May: Kanuri Incubator, databox.
- May: Wollayta Incubator, Infobox settlement.
- April: Swazi Wikipedia, infoboxes.
- March: Kinyarwanda Wikipedia: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red#Improvement of kinyarwanda wikipedia.
- February: Multiple questions about templates in the Punjabi Wikipedia.
2022
[edit]- November 1: Northern Sotho Wikipedia, references.
- October 22: Igbo Wikipedia, flags templates (in infoboxes).
- October 18: Haiti Wikipedia, infobox module.
- July 1: Swahili Wikipedia, infoboxes.
- May 10: Obolo incubator.
- April 29: Pannonian Rusyn Incubator.
- April 2: Runyankore Incubator.
- January 22: Twi Wikipedia, navigation box styling.
2021
[edit]- September 10: Nyanja (Chewa) Wikipedia, Infobox issues in general.
- September 4: Lingala Wikipedia, Infobox settlement. The template was imported from the English Wikipedia in 2015. In 2021, someone tried updating the underlying Module:Infobox, but without updating the dependencies in the templates.