Help talk:Language

1st comment

I've added categories for English, Spanish, French, and German. I couldn't do Italian, Chinese, or Arabic because I didn't have anyone in-game that could translate stuff for me. =)

This page could possibly be written in other languages, also. – Yaten ^talk 30 July 2005 12:43 (PDT)

Probably not necessary as the main language of the wiki is english. It looks really good though! --Guppymomma 30 July 2005 12:50 (PDT)

Any way we could get Portuguese added in here? We've got a lot of Brazilian players. --Eurydice 18:47, 15 August 2005 (PDT)

Yeppers. Just gotta figure out what the letters are for it over at Wikipedia. :) --Guppymomma 18:49, 15 August 2005 (PDT)

You rule. --Eurydice 18:54, 15 August 2005 (PDT)

Geographic breakdown?

I'm curious if there are any other major languages we're missing based on the Official:Demographic Information results, but the page we have doesn't detail any geographical breakdown. – Yaten ^talk 07:45, 16 August 2005 (PDT)

Was geographic area a question in the survey? I don't think it was. It's part of getting an account though isn't it? --Guppymomma 08:43, 16 August 2005 (PDT)

There was, but it wasn't extensive. Since it was a required field, people whose country was not on the list were picking randomly, so I doubt it'd be accurate in any way. --AtteSmythe 13:35, 16 August 2005 (PDT)

I watch the forum for bits...there was a lithuanian post recently. What do they speak there? :) --Guppymomma 08:44, 16 August 2005 (PDT)

Norweian Language Templates

The template currently reads: Denne brukeren har norsk som morsmål, og behersker bokmål. This means: This user is a native speaker of Norwegian, and speaks/comprehends bokmål.

I would recomend removing the part after the comma, as there are two seperate, but equal, norwegian languages: Bokmål and Nynorsk, or change it to ", og behersker bokmål eller nynorsk".

I know this is a minor thing, but it can be misdirecting if the user in question don't speak/comprehend bokmål (A person who have learned nynorsk in school)--Kinocha 01:30, 20 November 2005 (PST)

Sure, feel free to edit this as you see fit (not many people here are as well versed in Norwegian as you :) ) --Nickster ^(t/c) 13:40, 20 November 2005 (PST)

I agree. Checking out the English Wikipedia, it reads "Disse brukerne har norsk som morsmål."—the official distinction seems to be "no" for Bokmål and "nn" for Nynorsk. – Yaten ^talk 13:56, 20 November 2005 (PST)

As I don't know how to edit templates, can someone else do it?--Kinocha 15:54, 20 November 2005 (PST)

I've removed the clause after the comma. Thanks for noticing the issue! – Yaten ^talk 16:12, 20 November 2005 (PST)

Russian

Was wondering. When I tried to do simply ru not ru-4 in User:CaptainDP, it didn't come out right. So, can we get a Russian Native speaker icon? --CaptainDP 12:06, 4 September 2007 (PDT)

Policy question -- for Users only? or Pirates also?

Should we be restricting the use of these Language templates to the User pages only? Or would it be OK to continue letting these also be used within Pirate pages? Just wondering if there was already any official stance or group consensus on this, please. Thanks! -- Franklincain ^(t/c) 22:49, 18 July 2012 (PDT)

I don't see it being widely used in pirate articles where it would be a problem. The vast majority of players that have pirate pages do not have well-known user pages, so the pirate page would be the only logical place to put these. And language spoken is sort of a crossover; the same languages spoken by a player are going to be spoken by all his/her pirates. Chupchup 08:50, 19 July 2012 (PDT)

Based on Faulkston's edits earlier today, I'll presume the official answer is "language templates are for user pages, not pirate articles".  ;-)

Thanks! -- Franklincain ^(t/c) 08:51, 26 August 2012 (PDT)

Aye, they're user namespace templates. The fact that all of the sub-templates and categories have "user" in their names should possibly have been a clue. All players have user pages - most just haven't created them yet. --Belthazar451 13:59, 26 August 2012 (PDT)