User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki/doc

This userbox can be used to point to your userpage on sister Wikipedias. It accepts two optional parameters: the "prefix" and a page on the sister Wikipedia. If the first parameter is omitted the userbox will default to the English Wikipedia. The second parameter can more usefully be omitted: it is only required if the page on the sister Wikipedia is different to your userpage here.

Usage

{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki|prefix of sister wiki|page on sister wiki}}

Examples

{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki}}

 This user has a page here.

Not very useful — particularly if used on your userpage

{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki|de}}

 This user has a page on de.wiki.

Probably the most useful variant for editors with the same username across all projects.

{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki|fr|Utilisateur:This flag once was red}}

 This user has a page on fr.wiki.

Useful if you use an alternative username on another project.

Known limitations

• The userbox assumes that the Wikipedia "prefix" is also used as a suffix for the sister wiki's image. If this isn't the case bad things will probably happen.
• It would be nice if the bold "wiki name" linked to the sister wiki. I couldn't find an easy way to do this (I didn't try very hard...) Obviously I tried stuff like [[:de]] and [[:de:]]. The problem I had was predicting what "Main Page" is in various languages... [[:de:Main Page]] doesn't work, for obvious reasons. One solution would be to use [http://de.wikipedia.org de.wiki], but that's pretty ugly. The closest I came to getting this to work was with [[:de:]] — but this fell apart as soon as I attempted to use a pipe in the link. And yes, I tried {{!}} instead of a pipe...!