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<onlyinclude>''Help for choosing the right template for your use case:''
<onlyinclude>{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
<table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center">
|+ Help for choosing the right template for your use case:
<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>
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<tr><th>Requires JavaScript enabled for folding</th><td colspan="2">yes</td><td colspan="3">no</td></tr>
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| <small style="font-size:x-small">[[Template:I18n templates|I18n templates]]:</small>
<tr><th>Folding can be disabled by user</th><td colspan="2">yes</td><td colspan="3">no</td></tr>
!scope="col"| {{tl|Multilingual description}}
<tr><th>Folding is done server-side</th><td colspan="2">no</td><td colspan="3">yes</td></tr>
!scope="col"| {{tl|en}}{{tl|fr}}...
<tr><th>Folding when at least x languages are provided</th><td>1</td><td>4</td><td colspan="3">1</td></tr>
!scope="col"| {{tl|LangSwitch}}
<tr><th>Supports language fallbacks</th><td colspan="2">no</td><td>yes</td><td>no</td><td>yes</td></tr>
!scope="col"| {{tl|Autotranslate}}
<tr><th>Collation order of languages (when not folded)</th><td>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)</td><td>as provided by the user in the wikitext</td><td colspan="3">N/A</td></tr>
!scope="col"| {{tl|TNT}}
<tr><th>Search indexing issues</th><td colspan="2">no (all translations are included on the same page)</td><td>yes (may not index all languages depending on search engines, unless there's a list of links for visiting other languages)</td><td>partially (where used; language subpages of templates are indexed)</td><td colspan="3">no (translated pages should include a <code><nowiki><languages/></nowiki></code> navigation bar for visiting other languages)</td></tr>
|-
<tr><th>Page size issues</th><td colspan="2">yes (may exhaust size or time limits in the wiki parser if many languages are included; no folding and all translations included if the preferred language selected by the user is missing)</td><td colspan="3">no (the content only for the selected language is present in the generated page)</td></tr>
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Requires JavaScript enabled for folding
<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>data tables with translated cells; 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>
|colspan="2" style="background:#FDD"| Yes
<tr><th>Contains expensive parser functions</th><td colspan="3">no</td><td colspan="2">yes</td></tr>
|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| No
</table></onlyinclude>
|-
{{documentation}}
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Folding can be disabled by user
|colspan="2" style="background:#CFC"| Yes
|colspan="3" style="background:#FDD"| No
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Folding is done server-side
|colspan="2" style="background:#CFC"| No
|colspan="3" style="background:#FDD"| Yes
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Folding when at least ''n'' languages are provided
|style="background:#CFC"| 1
|style="background:#FDD"| 4
|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| 1
|-
!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
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Collation order of languages (when not folded)
|style="background:#CFC;text-align:left"| Consistant order:
* 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 (including possible duplicate inclusion for the same language)
|style="background:#CCC" colspan="3"| N/A
|-
!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)
|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| No (translated pages should include a <code><nowiki><languages/></nowiki></code> navigation bar for visiting other languages)
|-
!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; no folding and all translations included if the preferred language selected by the user is missing; 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)
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Contains expensive parser functions
|colspan="3" style="background:#CFC"| No
|colspan="2" style="background:#FDD"| Yes
|-
!scope="row" style="text-align:left"| Recommended use at
|style="text-align:left"| Categories, galleries
|style="text-align:left"| File description pages
|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]]
|}</onlyinclude>
{{Documentation|content={{I18n templates/doc}}}}<!-- put categories and docu for this template on its /doc subpage -->

Revision as of 16:14, 4 May 2020

Help for choosing the right template for your use case:
I18n templates: {{Multilingual description}} {{En}}{{Fr}}... {{LangSwitch}} {{Autotranslate}} {{TNT}}
Requires JavaScript enabled for folding Yes No
Folding can be disabled by user Yes No
Folding is done server-side No Yes
Folding when at least n languages are provided 1 4 1
Supports language fallbacks No Yes No Yes
Collation order of languages (when not folded) Consistant order:
  • 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)
 as provided by the user in the wikitext (including possible duplicate inclusion for the same language) N/A
Search indexing issues No (all translations are included on the same page, however search results may be less relevant with many languages mixed) Yes (may not index all languages depending on search engines, unless there's a list of links for visiting other languages) Partially (where used; language subpages of templates are indexed) No (translated pages should include a <languages/> navigation bar for visiting other languages)
Page size issues Yes (may exhaust size or time limits in the wiki parser if many languages are included; no folding and all translations included if the preferred language selected by the user is missing; larger pages to download for all visitors; slower navigation for visitors with slow Internet access; may be costly for visitors with limited data plans) No (only the content for the selected language or a suitable fallback language is present in the generated page)
Contains expensive parser functions No Yes
Recommended use at Categories, galleries File description pages Small templates, whenever the previous options are not suitable (removes the visual indication of the language before each translated text) Data tables with translated cells or larger templates, when used on pages that do not have language subpages (e.g. not having Main page/en, Main page/de) and where the language displayed will be automatically determined by the language set in user preferences 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 Translate Extension
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