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I do! Rich Farmbrough, 08:52, 7 September 2009 (UTC).[reply]

I would support linking actual talk pages automatically to the same languages, to which the main article links.

Discussion pages, such as WP:AFD are already sometimes linked to other languages, but not very systematically. I'm trying - very slowly - to improve this using the tools described at WP:WPIW/HE. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 06:01, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are an awful lot of redlinks in this help page. Is that intentional? --Redrose64 (talk) 18:36, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

resolved - they're blue now. Assume some kind of server malfunction in Miami, Fla. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:04, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For a few languages there are pages, which try to list problems with interlanguage links to en.wp. They are mostly outdated and not updated systematically, but probably should be kept. If anything, i shall try to update them one day according to the procedure described at WP:WPIW/HE. In the meantime the links to them can be removed from the main page. Here's the section:

For a few other Wikipedia languages, there are lists of pages where links may be needed. For example, the English article may have a Spanish link, but the corresponding Spanish article might be missing a link to English. Most of these lists are outdated.

• Wikipedia:Interlanguage links/Dutch
• Wikipedia:Interlanguage links/Esperanto
• Wikipedia:Interlanguage links/French
• Wikipedia:Interlanguage links/German
• Wikipedia:Interlanguage links/Polish
• Wikipedia:Interlanguage links/Spanish

For more information on working with other language Wikipedias, see Wikipedia:Embassy and Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination.

Regards, --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 05:56, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some things that has come up in relation to Alph Bot (see User talk:Alph Bot#Problem) that I could use some clarity on:

• Are we limited to only one English language page pointing to a page in another language's Wiki?
• Is there a problem with Set Indexes that are in the format of an article pointing to dab pages?
• Is there a problem with a page pointing to a section of a page in another language where the section is the only place where the topic is covered in that language?
• Do we have any thing on other Wikis, or here for that matter, on whether redirects can be set up solely for interwiki links?

Thanks

- J Greb (talk) 22:55, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think your questions are very pertinent. I came here for the same kind of reasons (see below comment). For Q 1) and 3), I would say: 1) No, I don't think it's a problem. BTW, there are already many cross-inter-language-wiki-link referencing. Example, 「透明」(= transparency) and「透明度」(= transparency level) both link to「 Transparent 」, through it's sometimes used to mean「Invisible」as in 透明人間/Invisible man (Notice the first 2 caracters are the same as 透明/Transparent). 「Invisible」is linkless and I don't where I could link it. 3) That's a good idea, I think the more there are the better. Though it would be important that the tool tip show the section title and not the page title. Can that be done? － Cy21 ➜ discuss 20:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These things are not absolutely bad, and it's true that they already exist, but it is a nightmare to maintain them. So it's better not to use them. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:12, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How the heck do I link from the Spanish Wikibooks article on soy beans to Polish Wiktionary article on dog food? What about from a commons image to Swedish wikipedia article on lung cancer? No wonder there are so few links. Please make it very simple. Thanks. 85.77.170.127 (talk) 12:07, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that sometimes there were 2 articles that lead 1 article in an other language... This of course because, most of the time, for languages with distant roots, translations don't go 1=1 but more 1=0.9 OR 1=1.1 (OR a phrase)

So I was wondering if there was a page to discuss this kind of language specific problem? Is there a spacial page for each language group? (Japnese ←→ English) I've searched but haven't found any. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cy21 (talk • contribs) 10:29, 6 March 2010 (UTC) edited － Cy21(talk)[reply]

FYI, {{Comp}} has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.253.16 (talk) 06:09, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I started adding German interwiki links to some aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer navboxes Template:Rolls-Royce aeroengines as an example (the German equivalent is 'Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Rolls-Royce Flugzeugtriebwerk') and adding the English links to the German templates. A German editor spotted a problem and asked me to stop, which I did. I could not see the problem initially but it appears that when clicking on the language link in the left side bar of an article that this directs to the company navbox template and not the article. Is there anyway around this problem or is it something that is being caused at 'the other end'?!! Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 19:36, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Same problem on wiki:it, have undone my related edits there. Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 19:45, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you put the interwiki links within the <noinclude> ... </noinclude> then they should only appear on the template's page, and not pages which utilize the template. See Wikipedia:Template documentation for more info. I've done this for Template:Rolls-Royce aeroengines so you can take a look at that for an example. TDL (talk) 06:28, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks. I will try it later. Cheers Nimbus (Cumulus nimbus floats by) 18:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if this is the right place for this query. I have noticed that interlanguage links at the left side of an article seem to have each language named in its own language (Deutsch, Français, Polski, etc.) except for Old English, where it says "Anglo-Saxon". (See, for example, the interlanguage links at the left side of Beowulf.) The language was called "Anglo-Saxon" a hundred years ago. Scholars tend to call it "Old English" now. Regardless, if the Wikipedia practice is to have "Deutch" rather than "German" for the linked word that takes us to a particular article in German, and "Français" rather than "French" for us to click on to take us to a particular article in French, then putting ang at the bottom of an article should give us the word "Englisc" to click on, not "Anglo-Saxon".

How can this be fixed? Girlwithgreeneyes (talk) 22:03, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You should probably enter a new bug on Wikimedia Bugzilla and wait until someone fixes it... --Filemon (talk) 07:26, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I have done that. Girlwithgreeneyes (talk) 10:45, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If bots automatically handle interlanguage links (like if A connects to B and B connects to C, then A connects to C), then is there a way for those bots to sort alphabetically by the two-letter language code? It would make navigating between languages a lot easier. InMooseWeTrust (talk) 13:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, {{Iw}} has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.155 (talk) 04:16, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I recently worked on Merope (mythology), which was very sloppily linked to a lot of interlanguage articles, most of which correspond to Merope or Merope (Pleiades). I carefully removed the interlanguage links that do not belong, but three different bots have come along and re-added them.

My question: Shouldn't these bots have to analyze and understand that if human editors are removing and reverting interlanguage additions, they must not be re-added?

I know I could go into all of those sister Wikipedias and correct the problem by hand, but, in principle, it is galling that I would have to go to such lengths to defend a correct edit to English Wikipedia against an onslaught of bots programmed to reintroduce the error. Wareh (talk) 13:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{Bots|deny=…}} is your friend. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 14:05, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I had no idea of this tool. Admittedly a blunt instrument, but anyone who dislikes its kludginess can always fix the problem! Wareh (talk) 14:27, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking for the information on how to add interlanguage links from wikipedias to commons. For example, I just moved Template:Str sub to commons: I added interlanguage link "[[en:Template:Str sub]]" to commons:Template:Str sub but would like to also add an interlanguage link pointing from Template:Str sub to commons. What is the correct syntax? --Jarekt (talk) 14:42, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]