Talk:www.wiktionary.org template

Although the portal templates themselves are permanently protected for security reasons, you are welcome to edit the staging ('/temp') portal. A Meta administrator will review your changes and copy-paste the raw (X)HTML5 code into the live portal. If a few days pass without that happening, post a friendly reminder at Talk:Www.wiktionary.org template.

The Wiktionary multilingual portal consists of four main sections: the Top 10 ring of languages surrounding the English Wiktionary logo; the search box; the stratified list of language editions; and the sister project links at the bottom. The fundamental principle behind the portal's design is quick access to most of Wiktionary's language editions without favoring one language in particular. (Until 2004, www.wiktionary.org redirected to the English Wiktionary's main page, which seemed a little anglocentric, to say the least.)

Unfortunately, designing a usable portal for choosing among hundreds of languages, while keeping the page relatively small and simple, is a hard problem. (Solutions wanted!) The status quo is to sort the languages by number of entries.

In order to keep the portal from growing out of control, the portal is limited to all language editions that contain 100 or more entries, as determined by the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} keyword or Special:Statistics. (Look for articles= at http://xx.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics, where xx is the wiki's language code.)

Note that closed wikis may not be listed in the portal.

<a href="//xx.wiktionary.org/" lang="xx">Name</a>&nbsp;•

• If the language is not written in a Latin-based script, the line should look like this:

  <a href="//xx.wiktionary.org/" lang="xx" title="Romanization">Name</a>&nbsp;•
  

  where Romanization is the standard romanization for Name (also in title case). The romanization will appear as the link's tooltip. Place the wiki's listing in alphabetical order by romanization.
• If the language is written from right to left, the line should look like this:

  <a href="//xx.wiktionary.org/" lang="xx" title="Romanization"><bdi dir="rtl">Name</bdi></a>&nbsp;•
  

• If the language is primarily written with more than one script, the line should look like this:

  <a href="//xx.wiktionary.org/" lang="xx"><span lang="xx-Xxx1">Name 1</span> / <span lang="xx-Xxx2">Name 2</span></a>&nbsp;•
  

  where Xxx1 and Xxx2 are the ISO 15924 codes for the language's scripts (for example, 'Latn' for Latin-based alphabets).
  • If the one of the scripts is written from right to left, use a <bdi> tag instead of a <span> tag around the right-to-left text.

The middle portion of the portal has sections for each power-of-ten number of entries. Once a language edition reaches 1,000 entries (or 10,000 or 100,000), its listing should be moved up a level. That's all you have to do in most cases.

Once the language edition reaches 100,000 entries, currently the second-highest level, some extra steps are necessary to add it to the search box:

1. Search the page for 'id="language"' and add this line to the list that follows:

   <option value="xx" lang="xx">Name</option>
   

   Place the line in alphabetical order by Name. This adds the language to the dropdown menu.
   • If the language is not written in a Latin-based script, add the romanization to the end of the line, so we know how to alphabetize it:

     <option value="xx" lang="xx">Name</option><!-- Romanization -->
     

   • Do not use the dir="rtl" attribute or <bdi> tag here.