English Wikipedia @ Freddythechick:Requests for comment/2020 left sidebar update/Comparison
Comparison to other projects and languages
Non-encyclopaedia projects
As you'd expect, non-encyclopaedia wikis have a wide variation.
| Current en-wp | Meta | MediaWiki wiki | Commons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search (Monobook) | |||
| Main page
Contents Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia store |
Main page
Wikimedia News Translations Recent changes Random page Help Babel |
Main page
Get MediaWiki Get extensions Tech blog Contribute |
Main page
Welcome Community portal Village pump Help center
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| Search (Monobook) | |||
| Interaction
Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page |
Community
Wikimedia Resource Center Wikimedia Forum Mailing lists Requests Babylon Reports Research Planet Wikimedia |
Support
User help FAQ Technical manual Support desk |
Participate
Upload file Recent changes Latest files Random file Contact us |
| Beyond the web
Meet Wikimedians Events Movement affiliates Donate |
Development
Bug tracker Code repository Code docs Statistics |
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| MediaWiki.org
Community portal Recent changes Translate content Random page Current issues Sandbox |
Pelagic (talk) 00:11, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Other Wikipedias
We have 15 wikis with over a million articles, so I'm not about to summarise all of them, but here's a couple to start. Feel free to add to this table if you know of a major language that has a notable layout.
English terms in (brackets) – round brackets or parentheses if you prefer – are what I get if I set my interface language to en, they're not necessarily exact translations. For example, I read some of the French terms as "starting on Wikipedia" and "hazardous article" (just kidding about the second one!).
Search is suppressed in Vector and Timeless, but I've listed it here for completeness, since any changes to MediaWiki:Sidebar will affect the other skins.
| Current en | fr | de | zh |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Rechercher – Search] | [Suche – Search] | ||
| Main page
Featured content Current events Random article Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia store |
Accueil (Main page)
Portails thématiques (Thematic portals) Article au hasard (Random page) Contact (Contact) |
Hauptseite (Main page)
Themenportale (Topical portals) Zurfälliger artikel (Random page) |
Main page
Index Featured content Current events Recent changes Random page Donate |
| [Search] | |||
| Interaction
Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page |
Contribuer (Contribuer)
Débuter sur Wikipédia (First steps) Aide (Help) Communauté (Community portal) Modifications récentes (Recent changes) Faire un don (Donate) |
Mitmachen (Participate)
Artikel verbessern (Improve articles) Neuen Artikel anlegen (Create article) Autorenportal (Community portal) Hilfe (Help) Letzte Änderungen (Recent changes) Kontakt (Contact) Spenden (Donate) |
Help
Help Community portal Policies Village pump Information desk Text conversion Internet Relay Chat Contact us About |
Pelagic (talk) 00:11, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Chinese and Japanese wikipedias have Help as the second sidebar section, rather than contribute/participate. I've added zh to the table as an example. I'm no good with non-Latin scripts, so have only presented the en strings. Pelagic (talk) 01:34, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Spanish es:Wikipedia:Portada has one sidebar section (apart from the standard tools); interestingly one of their items is Páginas nuevas 'New pages' in addition to Cambios recientes 'Recent changes'. Pelagic (talk) 01:34, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Polish has a separate section for About, Contact, Donate. They link to Main Categories rather than portals.
Nederlandish[just kidding] has "Find a page" which links to a navigation portal nl:Portaal:Navigatie that puts entry points to search, categories, portals, and lists all in the one place. Pelagic (talk) 02:38, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Top 15 language wikipedias
Sidebar items for the 15 wikis having over a million articles (according to the list at the foot of en-wp Main Page). The focus here is what's included, not the order, grouping, or exact name.
| !Item | en | fr | de | nl | sv | es | pt | it | pl | ar | ru | uk | zh | jp | vi | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main page | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 15 |
| Contents / index | • | • | • | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Index A–Z | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Find an article | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Featured content | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 8 | |||||||
| Current events | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 9 | ||||||
| Today | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Nearby | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Portals | • | • | • | • | 4 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Categories | • | • | • | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Recent changes | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 14 | |
| Related changes | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| New pages | • | • | • | • | • | 5 | ||||||||||
| Random article | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 15 |
| Browse offline | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| About | • | • | • | • | 4 | |||||||||||
| Contact | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 10 | |||||
| Report a problem | • | • | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Bug reports | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Donate | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 14 | |
| Shop | • | • | 2 | |||||||||||||
| First steps | • | (5) | • | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Tutorial | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Help | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 14 | |
| FAQ | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Community portal | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 12 | |||
| Policies (& guidelines) | • | • | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Village Pump | • | • | (1) | • | (3) | (4) | • | (7) | 8 | |||||||
| Newsletter | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Noticeboard | • | (6) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Information desk (2) | • | • | • | 3 | ||||||||||||
| New pages | ? | |||||||||||||||
| Improve articles | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Create article | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Upload | • | • | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Sandbox | • | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 13 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 12 |
(1) "Bar"
(2) Italian sportello informazione looks more like our helpdesk rather than reference desk. Not sure about the Chinese one. I grouped Vietnamese "Help desk" here also.
(3) "Forum"
(4) "Tavern"
(5) "Introduction", not sure how similar this is to "first steps" on other wikis. It's also called "introductory course" on-page, looks a little like en-wp's "Wikipedia adventure"?
(6) "Announcements"
(7) "General discussion"