Thanks for the book tip: I've heard good things about that one, but I still haven't gotten around to seeing it. If you are also interested in former states, perhapes you might be interested in checking out WP:WPFC (the Prussian WikiProject is largely my test project for things that are needed for WPFC). No problem with the infobox - once the auto-categorisation is set up and the variables made available in both languages, then it should be finished. - 52 Pickup15:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just importing everything from the German wiki "as is" will be fine for most fields, but some things will always need a bit of extra user input:
The translation of some text fields that could never be automated (eg. Gliederung and Lageplanbeschreibung).
The mayor entry is normally wikilinked - that should probably be undone. The template checks automatically for the presence of an entry with that name.
One should also look out for any unusual wikilinking in the Partei field, particularly if a minor party is used.
The extra information from Infobox Town DE should also be preserved: notably the source URL for the population data (the wikilinking from this URL should be removed)
Add a representative photo of the location, if possible. If there is a good picture for this, it will probably be already on the page somewhere.
And when/if the auto-categorisation works, the manual "Cities/Towns... in ..." categories at the bottom of the page should be deleted. This way, any false categorisations that are currently in place will be undone and corrected by the infobox.
If there is anything else that needs to be done, post it on the template talk page - we should probably come up with a set of instructions for those who want to import infobox data from the German wiki. - 52 Pickup18:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
translation tag
There is a lot available, and I tend to forget most of it. In fact I was reminded that there is another template {tl|german}} which does a similar thing. Anyway it is placed on the bottom of the article, like the EB1911 or similar attribution tags. Agathoclea18:58, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The only reference to her as child of Hugobert that I've seen is the Hugobert Wikipedia article, which led me to believe it to be incorrect. However, I have misgivings about the decision at this point so I will revert it
Furius05:41, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
