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This page keeps editors abreast of recent clarifications of or changes to policy or best current practice, major changes to templates, and the like. Watch this page.

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2013

2013 June

2013 May

  • Language code templates like {{en}}, as well as their subtemplates like /script and /family, are now deprecated in favour of Module:languages and are being gradually orphaned and deleted. To access the information in the new location, use Module:language utilities.
  • A new CSS class is now available to affect the display of templates that require a language, such as {{term}}, when the language is missing. In your own common.css file, you can add the .missing-language CSS class and assign styling to it, such as increased text size or a distinct background colour. This way, you can recognise any templates that are missing a language by the distinct styling, which is useful if you are intending to fix such usage.
  • WARNING: Just to keep you on your toes, {{abbreviation}}, {{initialism}}, and {{acronym}} now do something totally different from what they're done for years.

2013 April

  • A set of new gender-number templates has been created, {{m-p}}, {{f-p}} and {{n-p}}, which allow gender and number to be specified with a single parameter. This is partly for compatibility with Module:gender and number, but it may also be useful more generally. This means that, when a noun has a gender and is plural, instead of specifying two genders ("m" and "p"), you can also specify just one ("m-p").
  • The templates {{charactercat}}, {{prefixcat}}, {{suffixcat}} and {{circumfixcat}} now use the first numbered parameter to specify the (mandatory) language code, just like most other category boilerplate templates already do. The parameter lang= still works, and causes all the numbered parameters to "shift back" by one number. However, this is deprecated and is provided only to ease the transition.
  • Nasal vowels are now indicated also in the entry names of Proto-Germanic entries. The old entries should be moved to the new names with ogoneks, and any links to the old name should be fixed. See WT:RFM#Proto-Germanic forms with final nasal vowels to their ogonek-spelled forms.
  • Documentation pages for templates are now placed on the /documentation subpage rather than /doc, to avoid any potential conflicts with language codes. The old name is still supported by {{documentation}}, but it defaults to the new name and the pages should be moved whenever possible. Module documentation pages can only be named /documentation, so those will not change. See WT:RFM#Documentation subpages to /documentation.

2013 February

2013 January

  • Language consideration pages about Lower Sorbian and about Mauritian Creole have been created.
  • The template {{de-noun}} has been substantially simplified, and many duplicate parameters and superfluous code removed. The positional parameters now specify gender, genitive, plural and diminutive respectively. See the documentation page for more details. —CodeCat 16:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
  • The template {{de-adj}} has also been simplified somewhat. The parameters comparative= and superlative= are no longer used, instead use the first two positional parameters (which were already supported before). —CodeCat 01:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
  • A new template {{lr}} is now available. It is a counterpart to {{l}} for linking to reconstructed terms, in the same way that {{recons}} is a counterpart to {{term}}. It should be used instead of the older {{lx}} in most cases, but the latter may still be useful in multilingual templates. —CodeCat 22:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
  • The parameters lang= and type= of {{rfinfl}} have been changed to the first and second positional parameters, respectively. The second parameter specifies the part of speech, for example {{rfinfl|la|verb}}. If left out, it adds the entry to a generic category. —CodeCat 15:05, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Past year

2012 December

  • The wikiproject Wikivoyage, which hosts information about destinations around the world, may now be linked to using the prefix "voy:". For example, voy:Africa is a travel guide to Africa. Wikivoyage began as a fork of Wikitravel after the latter was acquired by a for-profit company.
  • The template {{list}} is deprecated in favour of transcluding the list template directly. Instead of writing (for example) {{list|en|days of the week}}, write {{list:days of the week/en}}.

2012 November

  • Low German is now split into two codes: {{nds-de}}/{{nds}} (Low German) for Low German spoken/written in Germany using German spelling standards, and {{nds-nl}} (Dutch Low Saxon) for Low German spoken/written in the Netherlands using Dutch spelling standards. The regional codes {{wep}} (Westphalian), {{act}} (Achterhoeks), {{drt}} (Drents), {{gos}} (Gronings), {{sdz}} (Sallands), {{stl}} (Stellingwerfs), {{twd}} (Twents) and {{vel}} (Veluws) are no longer available and should not be used. The code {{pdt}} (Plautdietsch) remains in use. The code {{nds}} is currently synonymous with {{nds-de}}, but may be deprecated and deleted in the future, pending discussion.[1][2][3][4]
  • The code {{vls}} now unambiguously refers to "West Flemish", not "Flemish". "Flemish" is now considered a part of Dutch and uses the code {{nl}}.
  • The parameters pos=, sg=, current= and others, used in English headword-line templates, are deprecated in favour of the head= parameter, which fits better with standard practice across languages. The old parameters will still work for a while, to help ease the transition.[1][2][3]
  • {{nl-conj-wk}} no longer supports the no-ge= parameter. Instead, use the third numbered parameter to specify the past participle directly, when necessary. See verlangen or betalen for an example.
  • Several German declension-table templates have been renamed for consistency, by changing de-noun- to de-decl-noun-. See Category:German noun inflection-table templates and Category:German adjective inflection-table templates.

2012 October

  • {{proto}} has been deprecated and is no longer used. Instead, etymologies and links to reconstructed terms are now provided just as they are for other languages, using a combination of {{etyl}} and the new template {{recons}}, which works identical to {{term}} but is for reconstructed terms.
  • The code {{zh}} for Mandarin is no longer used. Use {{cmn}} instead.

2012 April

  • {{la-noun-multidecl}} now exists to be used to generate headword lines for Latin nouns that are attested in belonging to two declensions where the nominative singulars (i.e., the lemmata) are the same in both declensions (for example, cȳma).
  • Discussions are underway in the Beer Parlour and Grease Pit about comprehensively overhauling and possibly renaming Template:context.

2012 March

  • Category boilerplate templates such as {{poscatboiler}} no longer automatically pluralise their label parameter. {{poscatboiler|en|noun}} is therefore now written as {{poscatboiler|en|nouns}}.

2012 January

  • Language templates (such as {{en}}) no longer link to their language. As a consequence the use of {{language}} is deprecated.

Older news

Note: Changes listed here may no longer be current, and may in fact have been supplanted by newer standards of practice among editors.

2011 December

  • The template {{infl}} has been renamed to {{head}} to match the earlier change in terminology from inflection line to headword line.

2011 November

  • There is no longer need to add {{count page}} to pages.

2011 October

  • {{en-adj}}, q.v., now can handle "not generally comparable; comparative ..., superlative..." cases.

2011 May

  • No longer categorize a category's "main" entries so they show up at the start of the category. (Decision.)

2011 March

  • English verbs' headword lines (inflection lines) should no longer include to at their start.
  • Romanian words' page names will use t and s with commas beneath rather than with cedillas. (Decision.)

2011 February

  • For languages that are not natural languages, to be included each must have consensus for approval. (Decision.)

2010 August

  • {{rfexp}} can be used to request expansion of an appendix.
  • The "Alternative spellings" header is now deprecated. Use "Alternative forms" instead. (Decision.)

2010 July

  • {{term}} now supports two additional optional parameters, pos= to mark the part of speech of a mentioned term, and lit= to mark a translation gloss as literal rather than idiomatic (standard). See Template:term/doc for details.

2010 March

  • {{list}} may be used to create and edit standardized lists of entries.
  • {{unsupported}} can now be used to link to entries in Appendix:Unsupported titles by using the nominal pagename as the unnamed parameter: thus, {{unsupported|>}} yields >.

2010 February

  • {{etyl}} no longer linkifies the really common language names that aren't linkified in translations tables (list), unless the "Always linkify language-names in etymologies" preference is enabled (at Wiktionary:Preferences).

2009 December

2009 November

2009 October

2009 July

  • Imminently, {{term}} and {{t}} will not need the sc= parameter specified if the lang= parameter is specified and the pair (lang, sc) is one of those listed at template talk:Xyzy#Languages.

2009 May

  • Edits will be dually licensed starting mid-June. (more info)

2009 April

  • {{attention}}, {{rfdef}}, {{rfc}}, {{rfv}}, and {{rfv-sense}} now take a topic=... parameter, to seek attention from someone versed in a particular topic. {{rfdef}} also takes a lang=... parameter, whose values are language codes.
  • Users on Meta request input regarding a potential Wiktionary logo refresh: m:Wiktionary/logo/refresh/voting

2009 March

  • Please refrain from any new use of {{top}} and {{mid}}, as they conflict with language code templates. AutoFormat will change any in translations sections to {{trans-top}} etc. (discussion)

2009 February

  • (since 2009 January) {{en-noun}} now supports usually uncountable nouns and those with uncertain or unattested plural.
  • {{etyl}} now takes language families, not just languages, as values for the first parameter. See Category:ISO 639-5 templates for a list of these families.

2008 December

  • The old request that editors use brackets ([[) in {{plural of|[[foo]]}} and some other templates is no longer in place. However, you may still use those brackets if you wish. (explanation)
  • MW software now uses File: where Image: was used. Image still works as an alias, but you will see File displayed in various places. This was done because using Image for, say, .ogg files was silly.
  • The template {{see}} now works as an ordinary language code template, for Seneca. The "See also" atop an entry should now be added by means of the template {{also}} instead, no longer by means of {{see}}.

2008 November

2008 September

  • Etymology source-language templates (like {{F.}}) are being deprecated, and some have already been deleted; use {{etyl}} wherever feasible. (discussion, August 2008)
  • The source-information line for a quotation should now end with a colon rather than a comma. (policy; explanation of change)

2007 July

  • Old news for many, but new news for others -- {{law}} was replaced with {{legal}}. After some time, {{law}} will be used as a language-code template like {{aaa}} (for Lauje, a language of Sulawesi).
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