Thread:StephenTX/@comment-25046890-20160110060508/@comment-26143371-20160110134405

Preface: Sorry if the following seems a little harsh, I just noticed it when reading the whole thing and didn't want to rewrite it :/

?uselang=XX is supposed to pull the body text from page/XX automatically, but it's not doing so on this wiki for some reason. No, it's not! It is supposed to translate all interface-text of MediaWiki to the corresponding language and nothing else. It's not working here because it is not working on any wiki (including w:c:wlc and ). Take a look at one of the pages on WLB using it to see how it is really working.

Wikia standard is ISO 639-1 language codes (a) There is no "wikia standard", as this is intended only to be used only on primarily multilingual wikis like WLB. (b) Even on WLB it's only a convention to name pages in that way, in fact naming is completely irrelevant.

and so it takes up 2 lines, pushing all content down. No matter if it works or not I don't like it be on top of the pages. We are a mainly English wiki with a few pages translated to other names. Probably less than five percent of viewers will actually use those links, just to find out that the info on those pages is outdated and most of the links are deadlinks or bring them back to English pages. The next time they come across such a link, they don't bother to click it anymore, because the quality of these pages is quiet poor. So I'd rather like to see it above navboxes or even below them where Interlanguage links also go. But since navboxes have grown even bigger due to the lack of collapsed sections, nobody will ever find them below on decorations/building-pages.

As you might have seen, I'm not really a fan of the whole "other languages" on a single wiki thing. I've always rather liked to see an independent wiki for each language, but I suppose that's not going to happen since there is nobody with the resources or the will to make a complete wiki. Also I'm not a fan of just copy-pasting stuff without evaluating how and if it is actually the best thing that could be done/used.