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A user page is a page about a wiki user; someone who registered on the wiki, and is (most probably) a contributor. If you have registered, you can create your own user page. Your user page is linked in the top right. More importantly, others will see links to your user page from various places which assist wiki collaboration. This includes the 'Recent changes' and page 'history' displays (See Help:Tracking changes). You can also link to your user page within text of a wiki page, which is mainly useful on talk pages when you sign your name.

Contents 1 What to put on your user page 1.1 User scratchpad / development area 2 Other people's user pages 2.1 User Contributions 2.2 Editing someone else's page 2.3 User talk pages 3 External Links 4 Page Is Unavailable Due To Site Maintenance, Please Visit Reserve Copy Page 5 CLICK HERE 5.1 Syntax 5.2 Usage 5.3 Supported languages 5.4 Example

What to put on your user page

User pages are just as flexible as any other wiki page, and it's a page all about you, so generally people will leave you to freely write your user page in whatever format you like. Think of it as a 'profile' page. It's a feature to help other people know who you are, and to bring the online community closer together. You might like to mention where you are from and what your job is. You can also state what your main areas of interest are in relation to the topic of the wiki, and describe contributions you have made or are areas where you are interested in contributing.

User scratchpad / development area

You can use your user page as a scratchpad. An area for developing ideas without cluttering the main namespace. If subpages are enabled (See Help:Subpages), you may find them useful for creating sub pages under you user page. However you should avoid expending too much effort within your own area of the wiki. Be bold! Edit the main wiki articles! You can also use a shared Sandbox page for quick (non-permanent) wiki experimentation.

Other people's user pages

As mentioned above, you will see links to other people's user pages, in various places throughout the wiki.

User Contributions

When viewing another person's user page, an additional link "user contributions" appears in the 'toolbox' area (bottom left). This takes you to a list of all of this user's wiki edits. Use this to get an idea of how prolific a contributor somebody is, or to track down edits made by a user who is causing trouble/making bad wiki edits.

Editing someone else's page

It's generally considered bad etiquette to rewrite or reword another person's user page. Editing is not disallowed, but you should avoid adding information (or especially opinions) which might be misinterpreted as coming from that user, in situations where this could potentially cause upset. Some types of edit are widely acceptable, and unlikely to cause upset:

• Fixing wiki links, when a page has been moved or deleted
• Fixing broken external links
• Categorizing or fixing categories of user pages.

User talk pages

Every user page has an associated talk page; a "user talk page". This is a special kind of talk page, for leaving messages directed at a particular user. See Help:Talk pages#User Talk pages.

External Links

MetaWiki: User page

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Syntax

{{{Languages|PageName}}}

• PageName (optional) - the name of the page to display language links for. If omitted then the English version of the current page is used. This parameter can normally be omitted, as it is only required if you want to link to a page other than the one you place the template on, which is very uncommon. If this parameter is used on a sub-page make sure you supply the root name, not the full page name (e.g. on MediaWiki/fr you would need to use {{{Languages|MediaWiki}}} and not {{{Languages|MediaWiki/fr}}}).

Usage

The template should only be placed on pages that exist in more than one language, and it should be placed in the same location on each translation of the page.

The English version of a page is always the main version, with all other languages as sub-pages, named using the appropriate language code (see below).

For example, on the Main Page you would include the text {{{Languages}}}, both on Main Page itself, and on each of its language sub-pages. The template automatically creates links to any language sub-pages that exist, e.g. Main Page/ja<tt>, <tt>Main Page/fr, and ignores non-existant languages.

See Project:Language policy for further details about translating pages.

Supported languages

This shows you the name of each language's sub-page (using Main Page as an example). Other languages may be added easily as necessary. Please use the appropriate prefix, as used on Wikipedia when adding a new language. Please do not add languages for which no pages exist yet, as this will increase the time needed to include the template without adding any benefit (languages are only displayed to the user when the relevant page exists).

The link on the language names goes to the Wikipedia in that language. If no Wikipedia in your language exists, do not add pages in that language to MediaWiki.org! This wiki is not the place for language advocacy - please go through the correct channels, and once your language has a Wikipedia then please return to add content here.

Page Name	Language
Main Page	English
Main Page/ar	Arabic
Main Page/br	Breton
Main Page/ca	Catalan
Main Page/cs	Czech
Main Page/de	German
Main Page/el	Greek
Main Page/es	Spanish
Main Page/fa	Persian
Main Page/fi	Finnish
Main Page/fr	French
Main Page/he	Hebrew
Main Page/hu	Hungarian
Main Page/id	Indonesian
Main Page/it	Italian
Main Page/ja	Japanese
Main Page/ko	Korean
Main Page/mr	Marathi
Main Page/nl	Nederlands
Main Page/no	Norwegian
Main Page/oc	Occitan
Main Page/pl	Polish
Main Page/pt	Portugese
Main Page/ro	Romanian
Main Page/ru	Russian
Main Page/sq	Albanian
Main Page/sr	Serbian
Main Page/sv	Swedish
Main Page/th	Thai
Main Page/vi	Vietnamese
Main Page/yue	Cantonese
Main Page/zh	Chinese
Main Page/zh-hans	Chinese (Simplified)
Main Page/zh-hant	Chinese (Traditional)

Example

Here is how the language bar looks on the MediaWiki page: Languages