User talk:Ptpare

How do we edit the FiedlNames in infoboxes?

I am trying to develop pages for the Northern Sotho wikipeda (nso). I have not been able to translate the field names in the infobox from English to Northern Sotho (nso). In the Afrikaans case [Ramaphosa|Cyril_Ramaphosa (Afrikaans)]]] the template for the infobox shows “Amsbekleër” and “Termynaanvang” instead of “Incumbent” and “Assumed Office” for the Afrikaans version of the English page [[1]] page. I would like to do something similar for the nso page for Cyril Ramaphosa [Ramaphosa] but use the nso and not Afrikaans words. I looked at Designing_infoboxes which is where I saw the difference between a variable name ( FieldNameA1 ) and a variable value (FieldParameterer). However I was not able to find where the FieldNames are defined in the infoboxes. It would seem the multiple levels of transclusion (if I have used the word correctly) hide where these FieldNames are actually defined.

So this is the question: Where does wikipedia define the FieldNames for the "Infobox officeholder" template?

My apologies for having put some versions of this question in the tearoom using screen shots from slides in LibreOffice Impress. The difficulty is in formulating the question in words when there is confusion between key, variable, variable name, FieldName, and Field Parameter ([[2]] ) I thought that a copy of a "table" / "infobox" / "sidebar" on the wikipedia page would simplify the question. ( [Templates in translated wiki pages] )

Another apology is due to what must be faulty referencing in this question to the English, Afrikaans and Northern Sotho versions of the Cyril Ramaphosa article. I am not sure of how to use the square brackets, the curly brackets and the underscore correctly. Any help will be appreciated. Phillip (talk) 14:48, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Primefac: The parameter names and usage for any infobox can be found on the template page itself. For example, at Template:Infobox officeholder there is a #Usage section which describes the various parameters and where/how they can be used. It also gives specific examples of when you might use different groups of parameters.

Thank you for your comments Primefac. Unfortunately I am still not able to find an answer to my question in the Usage section of [Infobox officeholder]. It does not seem to show the train of transclusions. Also the wording "|order= is used in conjunction with |office= to state" and similar sentences do not help me find an answer to my particular question.

If you want more help, change the {{help me-helped}} back into a {{help me}}, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 15:19, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

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I've replied to your comment on my talk page, at User talk:Why Not A Duck#Your editing of the velocity article. In brief, I have no disagreement with just saying "position" and not "displacement." -- Why Not A Duck 19:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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Help me!

Please help me with... There is a "Script error: The function "infoboxTemplate" does not exist." on this page. https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Ramaphosa How should I go about correcting it? Phillip (talk) 11:15, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

It would appear that {{Infobox officeholder}} does not exist on st-Wiki. You will likely have to create it in order to use it there. Keep in mind that if {{infobox}} or any other templates it depends on do not exist over there, you might have to copy over those as well. If you want more help, change the {{help me-helped}} back into a {{help me}}, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 12:07, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you Primefac for the help. What is strange is that https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_officeholder suggest that it does exist but there is a problem with "Script error: The function "infoboxTemplate" does not exist. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Namespace detect/config' not found."