Template talk:Infobox Language/IPA notice
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This is a sub-template of {{language}}: it is not meant to stand alone. It appends a footer notice to the infobox about displaying IPA with Unicode. It is currently the default notice. --Gareth Hughes 19:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Protection
This sub-template is now under semi-protection: it may not be edited by new and unregistered users. This is reduce the change of vandalism and the excessive server load of an edit to a highly referenced template. --Gareth Hughes 20:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Is this template broken?
Look at Template:Infobox Language, for instance. — Omegatron 20:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- The was removed by someone who didn't test it first — it's there for a reason, and removing it broke it. — Gareth Hughes 21:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I removed the nbsp because it breaks things, so I could easily say "The nbsp was put back again by someone who didn't test it first." Putting it back broke all these articles, so I'm reverting you. If it causes problems where you linked, I'll try to solve them. Shinobu 00:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- I can see what you're talking about at Basque language. But those are not the kind of problems that you should try to fix with an nbsp. An nbsp will be put in the wikitext, flowing all the way up to the HTML generated, which contains a superfluous   as a result. I will try to fix this properly. Shinobu 00:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Solved. If there are any additional problems, please do note them here, or fix them properly, but don't revert anything. As mentioned earlier, my changes were done for a reason, undoing them will break articles. Shinobu 00:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- It still would have been wise to test them first. Playing with these templates and then not realising that you've broken them (because you have to refresh the cache) affects a lot of pages. Take a little bit of user space and test it out: that's the way this stuff was originally put together. — Gareth Hughes 03:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Which wouldn't have solved anything, as I would have concluded, based on the information I had then, that the new version worked correctly. Which is not to say I didn't test, on the contrary, I carefully observed what results the inclusions generated and what the resulting HTML was - I was not "playing" with the template, I was fixing a problem. That, and it's not possible to break a broken template anyway. Shinobu 00:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The link to IPA chart for English
Why is there a link to this page when in general this template is used for languages other to English? Phonemic transcription of English is quite different to phonetic transcription in general. For those unfamiliar with the IPA this link might give more confusion than clarification. I propose that the link be made optional having it turned on by some parameter. Jimp 05:08, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I have done this. I have also adjusted the following accordingly.
The parameter is IPAChartEng (same on all three templates). I have edited the following articles so as to include the optional wording.
I have edited the following instruction pages to note this.
- I redirected the links to the appropriate Help pages. kwami 21:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
