Template talk:Wiktionary-inline

Inline?

If this template is meant to be used inline, why does it emit a newline and a bullet? To correct this behaviour, I suggest to change the template code similar to {{Commons category-inline}} where a parameter |bullet=none will avoid this problem. The result might look like this:

{{#ifeq: {{{bullet|}}} | none
|
| *
}}[[Image:Wiktionary-logo-en.svg|16px| ]] The [[Wiktionary]] definition of [[wiktionary:{{{1|Special:Search/{{lc:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}|{{{2|{{{1|{{lc:{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}}}]]]

-- Michael Bednarek (talk) 09:15, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

problems with the "reimplementation"

The documentation for Template:Wiktionary says

• "This template should not be used when this link is the only external link in the ==External links== section." and
• Template:Wiktionary-inline (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) — particularly recommended when no normal/non-interwiki external links are present

I have converted a lot of templates such as {{Wiktionary|B|b}} on articles about letters of alphabets where there is no External links section to
{{Wiktionary-inline|B}}
{{Wiktionary-inline|b}}

The latest "reimplementation" has at least the following problems:

1. They are no longer bullet points: all existing calls that were bullet points must be now be edited to make them bullet points again, or to restructure the use.
2. The parameter is being ignored: The above calls both link to lower case b, and calls from pages such as Pe (Cyrillic) don't work at all, as I found when I tried it there.

For now I am reverting this back to the old version. —Coroboy (talk) 07:48, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

• Having the template default to adding a bullet makes it inconsistent with the majority of external links templates. The fallout from switching the default is minimal; for the time being all it does is slightly misalign existing uses, and there are few enough existing transclusions (which in my experience often use a bullet anyway) that readers are not significantly inconvenienced for the time being. The issue with calling parameters certainly looks like a bug: I'll look into it. Thanks. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:02, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
  • This should now be fixed in the template sandbox. Can you have a look? Cheers. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

The sandbox template works correctly. I will update the pages I have edited to add the bullets. Thanks for your help. —Coroboy (talk) 00:24, 6 October 2011 (UTC)