Module talk:Wikt-lang

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On 9 July 2024, it was proposed that this page be moved from Module:Language to Module:Wikt-lang. The result of the discussion was moved.

Currently using the template without a text value produces a Lua error - Lua error in Module:Wikt-lang at line 131: bad argument #1 to 'get_best_script' (string expected, got nil). This should be more gracefully handled like the error in line 248. Gonnym (talk) 12:14, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Caught:

{{Wikt-lang|en|}} → [text?] Parameter 2 is required

{{Wikt-lang|en}} → [text?] Parameter 2 is required

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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The currently set name for the Ilocano language, with language code ilo, is "Iloko" which does not match up with Wiktionary's preferred name for the language, Ilocano. For instance, {{wikt-lang|ilo|something}} links to wikt: something #Iloko, when it should instead link to wikt: something #Ilocano.

The following should be added to the data table variable in Module:Wikt-lang/data:

		["ilo"] = {
			["name"] = "Ilocano",
			["article"] = "Ilocano language",
		},

Special:Diff/1280064448#Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas discusses a prominent politician's use of a term in regional vernacular that is unfamiliar to most of her constituents, wherein I added {{Wikt-lang}} to add a link to its definition on Wiktionary.

wikt: Special:Diff/84203784 reverts my apparently improper attempt on Wikt's side to make the link created by this template work. —Luisanton (talk) 09:41, 18 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Add alg-pro for Proto-Algonquian. This is the code already used on Wiktionary, consisting of the prefix pro- for protolanguages plus the ISO 639-2 code alg for Algonquian. Hundreds of words and thousands of place names in American English derive from Algonquian languages, which in secondhand literature and on Wikipedia are often lumped together as "Algonquian" when the precise source language is either unknowable or unspecified due to laziness/confusion; Proto-Algonquian reconstructions are therefore mentioned fairly often and have enormous potential to increase as Wikipedia's etymology sections improve in quality.
Note that many other uncontroversial reconstructed languages are missing; the current set of codes for protolanguages represents exclusively a handful of European branches of Indo-European, plus Proto-Indo-European, and Proto-Semitic. This clear bias towards European traditional philology is not a good look for Wikipedia and should change in the near future.

(I guess) the following should be added to the data table variable in Module:Wikt-lang/data:

		["alg-pro"] = {
			["name"] = "Proto-Algonquian",
			["article"] = "Proto-Algonquian language",
		},

— Ganjabarah (talk) 01:48, 11 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

 Done Sophisticatedevening🍷^(talk) 02:04, 12 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

This ugly edit make me think it would be nice to add template support for wiktionary senseid. Something like:

{{#invoke:Wikt-lang|wiktlang|en|minute|minutes|Q209426|"fractions of a degree"}} -> minutes "fractions of a degree"

Interwiki links are more fragile than intrawiki links, so perhaps there was a conscious decision not to support this; OTOH I still managed to make my ugly edit, which is even more fragile still. jnestorius^(talk) 13:16, 1 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Support. An id parameter is much needed. Auteuil-Passy (talk) 06:03, 3 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Support I didn't understand what the missing feature was until I played around with this for a minute and realized the problem. It should be handled more gracefully, ideally. Dingolover6969 (talk) 23:34, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

foo and foo work was expected when using the apostrophes, but [[wikt:foo#English|foo]] and [[wikt:foo#English|foo]] do not work when using strong and em templates. Directly using the html tags fares no better: [[wikt:foo#English|foo]] and [[wikt:foo#English|foo]]. Would be nice if the bold/italics stripping also worked on these. Dingolover6969 (talk) 19:09, 22 June 2026 (UTC)Reply