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Added instructions for getting Babel boxes to work on other Wikimedia projects (no, this is not obvious)
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| style="background-color: {{{color|inherit}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="10" | {{{footer|[[:Category:Wikipedians by language|Search user languages]]}}} | | style="background-color: {{{color|inherit}}}; text-align: center;" colspan="10" | {{{footer|[[:Category:Wikipedians by language|Search user languages]]}}} | ||
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==Babel boxes== | |||
Your Babel box is for saying what languages you know, as well as what operating system, keyboard layout, web browser, desktop environment, and text editor you are most comfortable with. Details of how to use it for its original purpose, saying what languages you know, are at [[Wikipedia:Babel]]. Details of how to use it to say what technologies you use are fairly scattered, but a large assortment are at [[:Category:Wikipedians by technology]], or in [[:Category:Wikipedians]]. | Your Babel box is for saying what languages you know, as well as what operating system, keyboard layout, web browser, desktop environment, and text editor you are most comfortable with. Details of how to use it for its original purpose, saying what languages you know, are at [[Wikipedia:Babel]]. Details of how to use it to say what technologies you use are fairly scattered, but a large assortment are at [[:Category:Wikipedians by technology]], or in [[:Category:Wikipedians]]. | ||
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*[[Template:Babel-N]] - Allows any number of boxes.<br>Format: <nowiki>{{Babel-N |1={{User <box1>}}{{User <box2>}}{{User <box3>}}...}}</nowiki> | *[[Template:Babel-N]] - Allows any number of boxes.<br>Format: <nowiki>{{Babel-N |1={{User <box1>}}{{User <box2>}}{{User <box3>}}...}}</nowiki> | ||
==Custom headers, footers etc.== | |||
To specify a custom header, footer, bordercolor or color add the parameters header=''HEADER'' (default: [[Wikipedia:Babel]]), footer=''FOOTER'' (default: [[:Category:Wikipedians by language|Search user languages]]), bordercolor=''BORDERCOLOR'' (default: #99B3FF), and/or color=''COLOR'' (default: white). Call the '!' userbox to start a new column after that point or the '-' userbox to insert a blank row. You may also use '|align=left' to display the babel box on the left side of the screen rather than the default right. | To specify a custom header, footer, bordercolor or color add the parameters header=''HEADER'' (default: [[Wikipedia:Babel]]), footer=''FOOTER'' (default: [[:Category:Wikipedians by language|Search user languages]]), bordercolor=''BORDERCOLOR'' (default: #99B3FF), and/or color=''COLOR'' (default: white). Call the '!' userbox to start a new column after that point or the '-' userbox to insert a blank row. You may also use '|align=left' to display the babel box on the left side of the screen rather than the default right. | ||
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{{Babel|align=left|color=yellow|en|fr|de|!|tl|ru|leet}} | {{Babel|align=left|color=yellow|en|fr|de|!|tl|ru|leet}} | ||
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==How to get Babel boxes to work on other Wikipedias== | |||
The page you are now reading is the actual Babel template. If you click "edit this page", you will see a bunch of computer code that makes the Babel boxes work. What you're now reading is just comments in that code, inside "<nowiki><noinclude></nowiki>" tags so it doesn't interfere with the computer code. | |||
In order to have Babel boxes on another Wikimedia project, just copy this page to that project. Click "edit this page" but do not actually change this page. Just use your computer mouse to copy all the contents, including the computer code. Create a page called "Tempate:Babel" on the other Wikimedia project and put the content into it. | |||
You also need to copy over a bunch of files with names like "Template:User en", "Template:User en-1", "Template:User fr", etc. etc. Once you've done that, users can put e.g. "<nowiki>{{Babel:en-1|fr}}</nowiki>" on their user page and the Babel boxes will be displayed. | |||
[[Category:Templates using ParserFunctions|{{PAGENAME}}]] | [[Category:Templates using ParserFunctions|{{PAGENAME}}]] | ||