Template talk:Localized link

Unlocalized link
As a possible workaround for the problem of Special:MyLanguage not properly tracking backlinks, I've added an invisible unlocalized link. I'm not particularly familiar with the intricacies of translation, though, so if that starts popping up redlinks all over the place, it should be reverted or modified as needed. – Robin Hood  (talk)  23:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * If  is a category e.g. Category:Extension, this template wrongly adds all translation pages into the category. --Shirayuki (talk) 03:48, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I put a leading colon into the link, which I believe should work in all namespaces, even if it's only officially used for categories and files. If that creates any additional issues, let me know and I'll put in proper namespace checking. – Robin Hood  (talk)  13:26, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

The link "Help:Talk pages" strangely doesn't work with this template
At Help:Contents, I noticed a broken link, which should look like: but looked like: which was the result of the code, which works fine for other links, but mysteriously not for  .
 * Talk pages
 * Special:MyLanguage/Help:Talk pages

I first used the workaround of linking to a redirect to fix the link: Then I tried a leading colon: which works. --Pipetricker (talk) 14:10, 1 February 2018 (UTC)


 * The problem is the template trying to get the translation of the "Page display title" of the target page, which was blank because of a IP edit, causing the link to end in the "pipe trick", which only works when not used in a template. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 10:55, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Of course it had to do with the translation system, which I'm largely clueless about. --Pipetricker (talk) 12:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

Untranslatable category
should be added to the category on this template to prevent all of its translations from ending up in Category:Internationalization templates. --Sabelöga (talk) 00:22, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Erroneous text added by template
On Help:Linking to files, there is a text link labeled "dsewwwdw" added by. --TooManyTabs (talk) 18:54, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks; should be fixed now. --Clump (talk) 19:04, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

LanguageConverter syntax breaking PAGENAME: when stripping off the namespace
| | It should be handeled by "identifiying the converter syntax => stripped off till the first colon" instead when "{{PAGENAME: returned empty value". --Winston Sung (talk) 11:41, 21 January 2022 (UTC)


 * {{Edit protected}}
 * This should be enough, it adds a check to ensure the returned value of  is not empty:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Localized_link/sandbox?diff=5826177&oldid=5826172&diffmode=source Winston Sung (talk) 01:52, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

bizarre ? : nsp=0 but the Namespace is still displayed on translated pages
Form nsp=0 displays correctly no namespace for the EN page i.e. 'Rollback' here below

but the namespace still appears on the translated pages !

Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 15:08, 27 August 2022 (UTC)


 * It can remove only namespaces known to MediaWiki, i.e. English ones. It cannot figure out that Manuel is meant to be a namespace name, since it’s not defined as such in software. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 08:47, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * So the advice would be NOT to translate the namespace value (or to suppress it) on the translated page, in order to keep its original form and prevent from NS display, specially in menus when we dont wish them.
 * Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 15:41, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Template could also remove what precedes the ':' since nsp=0 without wondering the NS is recognized or not. This is another way to follow parameter role.
 * Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 15:46, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That wouldn’t work, titles of mainspace pages can also contain colons. Do you really want the title of Reading/Web/Desktop Improvements/Repository/Research and design: Phase 1/fr to appear without namespace as phase 1? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:29, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * General solution:
 * Namespace should be translated separately from the page display title.
 * This issue need to be fixed in the extension. Winston Sung (talk) 01:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC)