Topic on Extension talk:TemplateData

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Task T121470

Not specific to this extension.

Mediawiki TemplateData can be used to translate a template documentation. The worst: you have to copy from a Wikipedia to another Wikipedia, to see the documentation in the destination language.

I have done it in Wikipedia Template:Short description. I have translated the TemplateData from English to Spanish (you can edit TemplateData and select "español" -this is, Spanish- to see the translation into Spanish).

The problem: I have to translate the template documentation (TemplateData of the template) in the English Wikipedia and copy and paste it into the documentation page o f the template in the Spanish Wikipedia.

This is not good. The best idea is that I could see the translation in the Spanish Wikipedia, without copy and paste, in a Wikidata manner (global documentation from TemplateData).

Also, this translation into Spanish could be seen in Wikibooks in Spanish, Wiktionary in Spanish and so on, without copy and paste the TemplateData from the English Wikipedia to Wikibooks in Spanish, Wiktionary in Spanish and so on.

I can only guess that you want to edit the documentation of es:Plantilla:Breve descripción. That's another template with it's own documentation. The MediaWiki software does not support global templates yet.

Really it is support for documentation (translation of documentation). Avoid copy and paste several times (perhaps using Wikidata). If the TemplateData it is copied to another Wikipedia and a translation to a third language is done in this second Wikipedia, it is not enjoyed and used in the first Wikipedia. Inefficiency.