Template talk:Japanese

A Few Things
I don't believe there was a Japanese template, so this is a very good idea. Firstly, I just changed the link color to the help page, to be consistent with the wiki. This of course leads to the need for a help page to be created for Japanese.

My main point is the name for this template. Considering Nihongo is the Japanese word for the Japanese Language, and that this is an English Wiki, it should probably be called 'Japanese', so that it fits the quality standards on language. Most editors will not be familiar with what a template called Nihongo could mean. I'll move this soon, unless there is a good reason for it being named so. 14:29, 24 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Move is done. 03:41, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Macrons
There are no guidelines to use them in Romaji, at least I haven't seen any, but alot of people seem to care about Macrons when writing Romaji. I don't like them because they are annoying to type and more importantly, it makes a huge difference whether you write 'oo' or 'ou' when typing japanese. So I was wondering if we are able to program the template in a way that long vowels in Romaji get converted automatically to the corresponding Macrons. I don't know how a template works on a wiki or what programming-language is used to interpret them but if it is possible, this should be a rather easy change. It would help to keep things consistent. Bakeneko 06:57, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It's quite simple to use Google Translate in the meantime if you want to get easy macrons from the Japanese. It might be a bit difficult to implement something into the wiki itself, but I don't know how to write scripts or anything. 17:18, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The general rule is: use macrons for extended vowels, use the expanded form (eg. ou) if it's a vowel change (eg. Koume). The proposed template would probably be a bit complicated to code for the previous reason, and would probably have a considerable performance cost when used in large scale. If you want to quick access to macrons, click the "[Click here to show more...]" link in the edittools box (the box right under the text field when editing an article). 18:40, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * When no one was answering at first, I checked the source code myself since I used to be a programmer. Kinda figured that it might be possible using parser functions but is probably too demanding on the sever. I'm now using a sophisticated text editor when doing bigger edits concerning Romaji. Using the Find & Replace feature is doing it for me. Anyways, it doesn't hurt to ask, so thanks for the info. Bakeneko 06:32, 19 December 2012 (UTC)