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I can't translate cites or notes.

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Eltymo (talkcontribs)

Translation from English to Spanish works fine except for cites and notes. I click on cites and it only shows the first paragraph of the cite and I cannot edit it. And I can't edit notes.

Hans Haase (talkcontribs)

Templates are not identical and most likely not compatible to other language project. The CXT allows to choose and fill other fields to make fill the translated template as good as possible. For example, the German templates are known to combine data and request unnecessary or redundant data. The English match the need of information much better.

As the templates are customized on each project, individual and discussed solutions are made of missing knowledge, not accessible information, or the try on simplifying information due a point of view on notability, fields of the template in an other language often do not match.

I decided to copy and fill the templates manually after publication. One day, the Infobox templates will be stored on Wikidata. For this reason, any intelligence in the CXT – if there is one – has no need to learn how to fit and transfer the information into the destination template.

Instead, temporary remove missing templates from the source article, start translation and undo the temporary change in the source article.

Moroboshi (talkcontribs)

For tranlation from en.wiki to it.wiki will be best not translate at all citation template. We run a bot to translate cite book/cite web/ecc... to it.wiki equivalent, would be best to have an option to leave the template untouched instead to half translate /half delete them

Eltymo (talkcontribs)

Thank you. Ive decided not use the citation templates. Do you know how to add the notes [1] manually the text? Thanks!

Moroboshi (talkcontribs)

In mediawiki notes are inserted between the tag <ref>...</ref> (you can use citation template or free text as you liki between the tag rev. At the end of the article you have to add a tag <References /> in the point you want to show the notes, but I dont known the guideline for note uses on es.wiki

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