Wiktionary talk:Inflection-table templates
Standardizing inflection tables[edit]
I’d like to standardize the HTML in inflection tables. This could help build them with shared templates or scripts, style them consistently and user-customize their appearance, and help maintain and improve them efficiently.
Step 1 is to do a survey, identify and evaluate the common and diverse characteristics and areas for improvement.
Survey[edit]
The first five tables are put forward as examples on Wiktionary:Inflection-table templates.
{{la-conj-1st}}[edit]
- Placed under “Conjugation” section heading
- In collapsed NavFrame
- Medium-grey background
- Text aligned left
- Title copy “First Conjugation
- Low-intensity colours
- Coloured heading groups for case, number, and person
- Blue: indicative
- Green: subjunctive
- Orange: imperative
- Yellow: infinitives and participles
- Toned data groups
- Light: default
- Dark: [?]
- High contrast in text
- Intermediate header rows in large table
- Inconsistent italics in some headings
- Rules between headings but not data, light toned
- Adds category to this talk page
{{nl-conj-st}}[edit]
- Placed under “Conjugation” section heading
- In collapsed NavFrame
- Medium purple background
- Text aligned left
- Title copy “Conjugation of [term] (strong class 5, prefixed)”
- Colour monochrome, tinted purple
- Toned headers, separators, empty cells, and footer
- Medium contrast in heading text, high contrast in body text
- Empty divider rows
- Rules throughout, light toned
- Doesn’t add category to this talk page
| Inflection of Inflection-table templates (strong class 5, prefixed) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | aanbidden | |||
| past singular | aanbad | |||
| past participle | aanbeden | |||
| infinitive | aanbidden | |||
| gerund | aanbidden n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | aanbid | aanbad | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | aanbidt | aanbad | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | aanbidt | aanbad | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | aanbidt | aanbaadt | ||
| 3rd person singular | aanbidt | aanbad | ||
| plural | aanbidden | aanbaden | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | aanbidde | aanbade | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | aanbidden | aanbaden | ||
| imperative sing. | aanbid | |||
| imperative plur.1 | aanbidt | |||
| participles | aanbiddend | aanbeden | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
{{es-conj-ar}}[edit]
- Placed under “Conjugation” section heading
- Similar to [[
{{la-conj-1st}}]], above, except:- Title text centred, “Conjugation of [term] (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)”
- Colour in main left headings only, tone in subheadings and top headings
- Infinitives and participles last instead of first
- Heading copy “1st person” instead of “first”
- Empty divider rows replace repeated number headings
- Doesn’t add category to this talk page
{{de-decl-noun}}[edit]
- Placed under “Declension” section heading
- In collapsed NavFrame
- Medium grey background
- Text centred
- Title copy “declension of [term]”
- Colour monochrome
- Coloured headers, tinted low-intensity teal
- Toned body, dark indicating articles
- Medium contrast in heading text, high contrast in body text
- Doesn’t add category to this talk page
- Rules throughout, dark toned
{{de-decl-noun-n|es|pl=Häuser}}
{{la-decl-3rd}}[edit]
- Placed under “Declension” section heading
- No NavFrame
- No Title
- Coloured headers, tinted high-intensity teal
- Headers for cases with links, italicized
- Low contrast in heading text, high contrast in body text
- Rules throughout, medium toned
Sample table from ковбаса[edit]
- Placed under “Declension” section heading
- No NavFrame
- No title, explanatory text in a paragraph
- No colour or tone
- Headers bold
- High and medium contrast in header text
- High contrast in body text
- Rules at top and bottom only, medium toned
A hard-type feminine noun of the first declension.
| case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ковбаса (kovbasá) | ковбаси (kovbásy) |
| genitive | ковбаси (kovbasý) | ковбас (kovbás) |
| dative | ковбасі (kovbasí) | ковбасам (kovbásam) |
| accusative | ковбасу (kovbasú) | ковбаси (kovbásy) |
| vocative | ковбасо (kovbáso) | ковбаси (kovbásy) |
| instrumental | ковбасою (kovbasóju) | ковбасами (kovbásamy) |
| locative | ковбасі (kovbasí) | ковбасах (kovbásax) |
RFD discussion[edit]
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This was page was emptied out per this BP dicussion (pages that try to list a lot of info for every language are unmaintainable). --Bequw → τ 19:11, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
- It's a bit of a weird concept. First of all, you're only gonna use an inflection-table for a language you know well. Secondly, to find such a template, I'd either guess at a name, such as typing Template:pt-decl into the search bar (pt being Portuguese) or type in Category:Portuguese templates. Trying to remember the name of this page would come a distant third; like Bequw says, it would be very difficult to maintain and it's quite empty now. Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:46, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Kept for lack of consensus and discussion. --Chicken is fun (talk) 15:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
RFD discussion[edit]
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I'm RFDing these but I think at least part of those pages could be merged into a single page, perhaps Wiktionary:Language-specific templates or even into Wiktionary:Templates which is mostly empty right now. In any case, the headword-line page seems redundant to Category:Headword-line templates by language. —CodeCat 18:47, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
- Merge. I will delete the unmaintainable list and link to the category. —Michael Z. 2013-02-11 00:09 z
- They've both been redirected to Wiktionary:Templates, as there's absolutely no useful information on either that isn't already on that page. --ElisaVan (talk) 11:54, 21 October 2013 (UTC)