Template talk:Wiktionary

message: This shows what happens using  with no anchors in the Wikidata links. Italics occur only for non-English, Latin text. The items are on separate lines to make it easier to see the code.

Johnuniq (talk) 07:17, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: (Pleased to see this all moving in the right direction. More later, but first...) There's an amusing bug in the example above: Once you say 島 is Japanese, Japanese linebreak rules kick in, so it happily breaks the line before the ("non-Japanese") comma. Changing to a Japanese comma (irrelevant really, since that's no way to go) doesn't seem to affect it, nor removing the non-break space. This, IMO, reinforces my suggestion that it is much better to avoid attempting to create a natural English sentence. Much better to show the information in a clear tabular way (somehow). (Also stray spaces causing some confusion...) Imaginatorium (talk) 07:51, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

text: So  doesn't italicize English text. The documentation for  doesn't mention an option to force the template treat English like any other language (and this exception is hardwired into Module:Lang). Perhaps that could be changed, or italicization could just be turned on (|italic=yes) in the module function for  if the language code is en. — Eru·tuon 04:43, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples 

message: I don't notice the Wiktionary link when it's floating way over on the top right, far away from the list of entries that naturally captures the eye. How can this be improved? --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 00:40, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Default positioning on the right makes it hard to notice 

message: The second sentence on this documentation page says "Wiktionary entries in8888clude..." Should all of those 8's perhaps not be there? ChromeGames923 (talk · contribs) 06:55, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps. Likely, even! CapnZapp (talk) 16:23, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo on this page? 

message: I often see this on articles where it doesn't really seem to be serving any purpose: the word isn't hard to pronounce, nor does it have any detailed etymological or international history that would otherwise overwhelm the article. Or it does, but those aspects are already covered in the Wikipedia article. Should there be some guidance here on when and when not to use this template? --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:22, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  No usage guidelines? 

message: How do you link from Wikipedia to Wiktionary Thesaurus? That is, this: :wikt:Wiktionary:Thesaurus. CapnZapp (talk) 16:17, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if the answer is the obvious one, that is, you simply do  and openly display the unusual term (see example box for Thesaurus entry for "bear") - explaining this explicitly in the documentation would be helpful. Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 16:22, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thesaurus 

message: I suggest that this template either move (or remove) the Wiktionary logo (or what I assume is its logo) from this template or that an alternative template be created that does not have the logo. The reason for this is to stop the template from taking up so much space on all of the disambiguation pages that use it. 
I have nothing personal against the logo itself. However, the way it is displayed in my browsers, the logo appears on the left of the box that the template creates for Wiktionary links. I suggest that the logo be moved to the top of the box (or removed altogether), and that the box be shrunk so that it more closely boxes in the text. I measured the amount of space that the box takes up, horizontally, and how much space the writing inside the box takes up, horizontally. With the browser that I am currently using, not to mention the screen, font, font size, and so on, the writing takes up approximately 48% of the space within the box. Let's just say that about half of the box is writing, and half is empty space on the left and right. I do not suggest that the box be reduced to half of its width, but I think that it should still be substantially reduced in size. Removing the logo or putting it above the text would free up a lot of room. 
Are there reasons for not doing this? I admit that there might well be several reasons, but I cannot think of what they are on my own. I would appreciate anyone who disagrees with my suggestion to please speak up, as I do not want to make things better in one aspect, while causing severe problems in another. Thank you very much, Kjkolb (talk) 11:39, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the Wikitionary logo or offering a template version that does not have it