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|+ Help for choosing the right template for your use case:

''Help for choosing the right template for your use case:''

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~~<tr><th>Criterion \\~~ Template</~~th><th~~>{{tl|Multilingual description}}</th><th>~~{{tl|en}}{{tl~~|fr~~}}…~~</th><th>{{tl|~~LangSwitch~~}}</~~th><th~~>{{tl|~~Autotranslate~~}}</~~th><th~~>{{tl|~~TNT~~}}</~~th></tr~~>

!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| [[Template:I18n templates|I18n templates]]:

<~~tr><th>requires JavaScript enabled for folding<~~/th>~~<td>+<~~/~~td><td>+~~</td><~~td>-<~~/td><~~td>-<~~/~~td><td>-</td></tr~~>

!scope="col" style="text-align:left"| {{tlx|Multilingual description|2=lang= |3=de,en,default=''Deutsch/English'' |4=fr=''français'' |5=... }}

~~<tr><th>folding can be disabled by user</th><td>+</td><td>+</td><td>~~-~~</td><td>-</td><td>-</td></tr>~~

!scope="col" style="text-align:left"| {{tlx|de|2=''Deutsch''}} {{tlx|en|2=''English''}} {{tlx|fr|2=''français''}} ...

~~<tr><th>folding is done server~~-~~side</th><td>-</td><td>-</td><td>+</td><td>+</td><td>+</td></tr>~~

!scope="col" style="text-align:left"| {{tlx|LangSwitch|2=lang= |3=de,en,default=''Deutsch/English'' |4=fr=''français'' |5=... }}

~~<tr><th>folding when~~ at ~~least x languages are provided</th><td>1</td><td>4</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td></tr>~~

!scope="col"| {{tlx|Autotranslate}}

<tr><th>collation order of languages (when not folded)</th><td>Latin, Latin or Cyrillic, Cyrillic, Greek, Other simple LTR alphabets, Indic, Other South Asian, Syllabaries, Hangul, Japanese scripts, Sinograms, (~~RTL) Hebrew~~, ~~(RTL~~) ~~Arabic languages</td><td>as provided by the user in the wikitext</td><td>//</td><td>//</td><td>//</td></tr>~~

!scope="col"| {{tlx|TNT}}

~~<tr><th>search indexing issues</th><td>~~-~~</td><td>-</td><td>+</td><td>partially (where used; language subpages of templates are indexed)</td><td>-</td></tr>~~

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~~<tr><th>recommended use at</th><td>categories, galleries</td><td>file description pages</td><td>small~~ templates, whenever the previous options are not suitable~~</td><td>~~larger templates when used on pages that do not have language subpages (e.g. not having <code><nowiki>Main page/en</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>Main page/de</nowiki></code>) and where the language displayed will be automatically determined by the language set in user preferences~~</td><td>~~larger templates when used on pages that do have language subpages; most of the time these will be pages prepared with the [[:mw:Help:Extension:Translate|Translate Extension]]</~~td></tr>~~

!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Recommended use at

<tr><th>~~contains expensive parser functions~~</th><td>-</~~td><td~~>-<~~/td~~>~~<td>-<~~/~~td><td>+~~</td>~~<td>+~~</td></~~tr>~~

|style="text-align:left"| Categories, galleries

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|style="text-align:left"| File description pages ''(deprecated, can be safely replaced by {{tl|Multilingual description}})''

~~{{documentation}}~~

|style="text-align:left"| Small templates, whenever the previous options are not suitable (removes the visual indication of the language before each translated text)

|style="text-align:left"| Data tables with translated cells or larger templates, when used on pages that '''do not''' have language subpages (e.g. not having <code><nowiki>Main page/en</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>Main page/de</nowiki></code>) and where the language displayed will be automatically determined by the language set in user preferences

|style="text-align:left"| Data tables with translated cells or larger templates, when used on pages that '''do''' have language subpages; most of the time these will be pages prepared with the [[:mw:Help:Extension:Translate|Translate Extension]]

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Requires JavaScript enabled for folding

|colspan="2" style="background:#FDD"| Yes

|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| No

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Folding can be disabled by user

|colspan="2" style="background:#CFC"| Yes

|colspan="3" style="background:#FDD"| No

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Folding is done server-side

|colspan="2" style="background:#CFC"| No

|colspan="3" style="background:#FDD"| Yes

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Folding when at least ''n'' languages are provided

|style="background:#FFC"| 1 (all translations are shown without folding if the preferred language selected by the user has no matching translation)

|style="background:#FDD"| 4

|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| 1

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Detection of duplicate, incorrect, or unsupported language codes

|style="background:#CFC"| Yes

|style="background:#FDD"| No

|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| Yes

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Allows the same translation to be used for several languages

|style="background:#CFC"| Yes

|style="background:#FDD"| No

|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| Yes

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Supports language fallbacks

|colspan="2" style="background:#FDD"| No

|style="background:#CFC"| Yes

|style="background:#FDD"| No

|style="background:#CFC"| Yes

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Collation order of languages (when not folded)

|style="background:#CFC;text-align:left"| Consistent order by native language name, languages grouped by script:

* LTR scripts: Latin, Latin or Cyrillic, Cyrillic, Greek, other simple LTR alphabets (Armenian, Georgian, etc.), abugidas (North Indian, South Indian, other South-East Asian, etc.), syllabaries (European, American, African, Asian), Korean alphabets (basic Jamos, Hangul including some sinograms), Japanese syllabaries (including some sinograms), sinograms (including some syllabaries)

* RTL scripts: Hebrew, Arabic, other RTL abjads (Divehi, etc.), RTL syllabaries (N'ko)

|style="background:#FDD"| As provided by the user in the wikitext (any inconsistent order may be difficult to lookup visually)

|style="background:#CCC" colspan="3"| N/A

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Search indexing issues

|colspan="2" style="background:#CFC"| No (all translations are included on the same page, however search results may be less relevant with many languages mixed)

|style="background:#FDD"| Yes (may not index all languages depending on search engines, unless there's a list of links for visiting other languages)

|style="background:#FFC"| Partially (where used; language subpages of templates are indexed)

|style="background:#CFC"| No (translated pages should include a <code><nowiki><languages/></nowiki></code> navigation bar for visiting other languages)

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Page size issues

|colspan="2" style="background:#FDD"| Yes (may exhaust size or time limits in the wiki parser if many languages are included; larger pages to download for all visitors; slower navigation for visitors with slow Internet access; may be costly for visitors with limited data plans)

|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| No (only the content for the selected language or a suitable fallback language is present in the generated page)

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!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Contains expensive parser functions

|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| No

|colspan="2" style="background:#FDD"| Yes (unless there's an editable <code>/lang</code> subpage listing all the existing translations selected with a {{tl|LangSwitch}})

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