User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki
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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[edit]
{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki|prefix of sister wiki|page on sister wiki}}
Examples[edit]
{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki}}
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Not very useful — particularly if used on your userpage 
{{User:TFOWR/Userboxes/Wikipedia/Sister Wiki|de}}
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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}}
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Useful if you use an alternative username on another project.
Known limitations[edit]
- 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...!