Template talk:Language

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Why is it that the English language names suddenly appear in lower-case? E.g. in {{Gartenlaube (1862)}} the language parameter is displayed as "german". De728631 (talk) 15:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

{{Language}} is automatically added by {{Book}}, so it should not be added. (We could add an uppercase to the first letter in English, it would aoid that problem but it is not the way the media-wikiwide #language: parser works, so I do not think it is a good idea. It works fine if we add "de" insteade of {{language|de}} in the template. --Zolo (talk) 16:03, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Ah, ok. Thanks for clarifying that. De728631 (talk) 16:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

{{language|ka|he}}

{{language|ka|he}} translating the Georgian language to Hebrew as גאורגית. It should be גאורגית. How can I change it? Geagea (talk) 22:58, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

The translation is from the Common Locale Data Repository of the Unicode Consortium. It is completely independent from Wikimedia and cannot be edited directly, but apparently you can report errors here.--Zolo (talk) 07:12, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I reported an error - http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/4627 Geagea (talk) 09:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Adding a translation of language code

The language code zh-tw translates to the English 'Chinese (Taiwan)' (e. g. when using it in {{language|zh-tw}}).}}

I would like to add the German translation (should be: 'Chinesisch (Taiwan)'). Can I do this somewhere by myself?

Thanks --Furfur ^{⁂ Diskussion} 00:06, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

S'gaw Karen language is not recognize.

When i created Template:Ksw , it do not recognize S'gaw Karen language. It would appear as ksw instead of "ကညီကျိာ်" which is the native name for S'gaw "Karen. Adds "Ksw: " in front of the text written in ksw. Also adds machine-readable tags identifying the text as being written in ksw." please fix this. User:Jaeminlovetaejoon

User:Jaeminlovetaejoon, it's probably because this language is not yet configured as part of the core MediaWiki software. To make this happen, you should go on translating messages into it in translatewiki. Fewer than 200 messages are left to translate in the most important messages group, so you are very close to getting it done. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:54, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Language not yet in core

My question is related to User:Jaeminlovetaejoon's question above, but more general: Is there an existing way to add templates for languages that are not yet in core MediaWiki? Translating the 500 or so messages that is necessary for this is doable, but may take time, and these days it's usually done by single people or very small groups. While the localization is happening, people already want to add descriptions in their language to existing images or images they upload.

If there's no such possibility in the current templates, does anyone disagree with adding a template that translates ISO codes to names of languages not yet supported? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

jv-java not recognized

It should display

ꦧꦱꦗꦮ

e.g: File:Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang (1803) - BL MSS Jav 24.pdf, File:Niti Praja (1802) - BL MSS Jav 1.pdf. Bennylin (yes?) 21:43, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Add Arabic varieties

I guess there's no easy way to add the various Arabic varieties? A455bcd9 (talk) 11:39, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Breaks Template:Wikipedia-screenshot

@Jarekt Your recent edit has broken {{Wikipedia-screenshot}}, as shown on File:Watchlyst Greybar Unsin.png. Despite your best efforts, it breaks the template's categorizing. Not sure how to fix that. Aaron Liu (talk) 22:13, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Aaron Liu, Thanks for letting me know. I undid it for now. I will check Template:Wikipedia-screenshot to see what is going on. --Jarekt (talk) 01:58, 13 March 2024 (UTC)