Topic on Project:Village Pump/Flow

As I understand it, when someone internationalizes a template here using Project:Translation machinery, every page using it displays garbled <translate>...</translate> tags until it is updated to invoke {{TNT|Template name}}.

This happened with {{MW version}}, it happened with {{Soft redirect}} (until @Krenair reverted it), etc.

Although the translation work that @Shirayuki and others do is immensely valuable, I think it's unfair to other mw.org users when it breaks pages that aren't internationalized. Surely there's a way that a template can do the right thing and not f*** up untranslated pages? If not, then we need a process for "Templates that are going to be translated", "Pages that need update for i18nized templates", [[Category:Templates that only work on i18n pages]], and maybe a bot to do the work.

Thanks for everyone's hard work, I appreciate it.

I created {{Template only works on internationalized page}}, and have begun adding it to the doc of templates that don't work unless you internationalize the calling page (sample). I still don't understand the root of the problem.

I asked him some time ago to ask for a bot to replace all templates that were being translated with {{TNT}} or {{TNTN}} where applicable. Sadly, that hasn't been done AFAIK

{{warning}} seems broken on non-translated pages, even when using {{TNT}}, see the top of Extension:DeletePagePermanently

If you mean the text of the caution or warning doesn't appear, I earlier created topic {{Caution}} and {{Warning}} templates broken! on this board.