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Thanks for reading over and improving the project page. I'm curious though, you've segmented out a bit of the content under the heading "English Wikipedia". I was under the impression that while the Ambox template (and Lua module) originated at English Wikipedia, that they are in use across many projects. I don't want to give folks the wrong impression that this information only pertains to English Wikipedia. How can we make this better? Do you think maybe we shouldn't link to the English Wikipedia pages, but maybe something more movement-wide (like the Wikidata entry)? Thanks for your time and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Hi Chris, I fixed various issues related to ambox support in hewiki, and while going over the documentation I found it is very oriented to English Wikipedia.

The main issues I find there - "Ambox" terminology isn't clear to someone who doesn't write in enwiki (AM is abbr), and the whole hierarchy of templates (messagebox=>ambox=>article for deletion) doesn't have to be the same in other wikis (the introduction and the screenshot is clear enough).

I think it would be ideal to document it from technical perspective - e.g not template Ambox but an element with CSS class ambox. Also I was about to open a phab ticket about it - if software assume there is a Lua module "Ambox", we should pack it nicely as part of Scribunto (or some other extension) to avoid each wiki copy&pasting module from enwiki. However after a 2nd thought I'm not sure about it (microformats of CSS class are also valid choice - but need to documented with the correct terminology).

Thanks