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Link to corresponding language section in Wiktionary

Can someone modify the Wiktionary links to become wikt:新#Chinese or wikt:新#Japanese rather than just wikt:新 when the language codes lang=zh or lang=ja are specified? There are significant differences between Chinese and Japanese entries on Wiktionary. KevinUp (talk) 15:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Template-protected edit request on 25 February 2022

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Per the almost-three-year-old comment on the Template talk:Linktext page, please update the template to include the indicated language in the target link.

Current template output for {{linktext|命|lang=ja}}:

命
<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%91%BD" class="extiw" title="wikt:命">命</a>

Functionally almost equivalent to {{lang|ja|[[:wikt:命|命]]}}

Desired template output for {{linktext|命|lang=ja}}:

命
<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%91%BD#Japanese" class="extiw" title="wikt:命">命</a>

Functionally equivalent to {{lang|ja|[[:wikt:命#Japanese|命]]}}

Rationale

{{linktext}} currently only links to the top of a Wiktionary page.

Some pages have entries in multiple languages, sometimes very long entries.

If an editor supplies a language code to the template, the editor presumably expects the link to take the reader not just to that Wiktionary page, but more specifically to the entry on that page for the indicated language code.

Wikicode changes

For every instance of:

[[{{{pref|wikt}}}:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]

Replace with:

[[{{{pref|wikt}}}:{{{1}}}{{if#:{{{lang|}}}|{{!}}lang={{{lang}}}}}|{{{1}}}]]

... and so on and so forth for each of the 20 possible input parameters.

My template coding skills are a bit rusty, so please double-check the bit about the {{!}} in particular. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 00:14, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not done (yet) Please make all your requested changed in the sandbox, test them, then reactivate when ready. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:01, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Xaosflux, whomever else, please see what appears to be working code at Template:Linktext/sandbox, and some simple tests at Template talk:Linktext/Sandbox.

For future improvements, we could add a test to see if pref is a lang code, and change the target language for #language to match that.

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 19:46, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Xaosflux: per the above since it appears the notification template was not used. HapHaxion _{(talk / contribs)} 21:50, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 :: For future improvements, we could add a test to see if '''pref''' is a lang code, and change the target language for '''#language''' to match that.
 :: ‑‑&nbsp;[[User:Eirikr|Eiríkr&nbsp;Útlendi]]&nbsp;│<sup>''[[User talk:Eirikr|Tala&nbsp;við&nbsp;mig]]''</sup> 19:46, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
+:::Pinging {{ping|Xaosflux}} per the above since it appears the notification template was not used. [[User:HapHaxion|<b style="font-family: Tw Cen MT; color: FireBrick">HapHaxion</b>]] <sub>([[User talk:HapHaxion|talk]] / [[Special:Contribs/HapHaxion|contribs]])</sub> 21:50, 2 March 2022 (UTC)