Manual

As a common language, we use English, so our technical and editing templates are written and titled in English.

Editing

Every governments article is based on general translatable governments template.

Example

On the example of current Czech Republic government, let's look on Czech Republic 2021 article:

Here we see overview of all representatives per their departments titled by department name. This is English article, so its Page content language is set to English, which can be seen in article's Page information in Tools menu on the left.

Here, in Page information, on the bottom, we see

Page properties

Transcluded templates

containing the general government template of that period

Template:Czech_Republic_2021

Wherein all representatives and their departments are listed. This template begins with 2 presidents and prime minister:

== {{{president}}} ==
<gallery mode="packed" class="dep">
Miloš Zeman 2013.jpg|{{WIKI|{{{Milos_Zeman}}}}}
Petr Pavel 2023.jpg|{{WIKI|{{{Petr_Pavel}}}}} 2023
</gallery>

== {{{prime_minister}}} /<code class="blue">ODS</code>/ ==
<gallery mode="packed" class="dep">
Petr Fiala 2022.jpg|{{WIKI|{{{Petr_Fiala}}}}}
</gallery>

{{{president}}}, {{{prime_minister}}} and further variables are reserved for translations to be passed to this general template by translated articles.

It also uses {{{Milos_Zeman}}} and {{{Petr_Pavel}}} variables for translated presidents' and representatives' names and on this example of translated English Czech_Republic_2021 article, its content is:

{{Czech_Republic/en|Czech_Republic_2021/Latin}}

because it's composed of Template:Czech_Republic/en template translating department names to English and Template:Czech_Republic_2021/Latin translating representatives names to many Latin script written languages including English.

The content of English Template:Czech_Republic/en translation is:

{{{{{1}}}
|president=President
|prime_minister=Prime Minister
|ministry_of_the_environment=Ministry of the Environment
|ministry_of_agriculture=Ministry of Agriculture
|ministry_of_health=Ministry of Health
|ministry_of_foreign_affairs=Ministry of Foreign Affairs
|ministry_of_the_interior=Ministry of the Interior
|ministry_of_education=Ministry of Education
|ministry_of_justice=Ministry of Justice
|ministry_of_industry=Ministry of Industry and Trade
|ministry_of_science=Ministry of Science and Research
|ministry_of_regional_development=Ministry of Regional Development
|ministry_of_legislature=Ministry of Legislation
|ministry_of_eu_affairs=Ministry of Eu Affairs
|ministry_of_labour_and_social_affairs=Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
|ministry_of_defence=Ministry of Defence
|ministry_of_culture=Ministry of Culture
|ministry_of_finance=Ministry of Finance
|ministry_of_transport=Ministry of Transport
|canceled=canceled
|party_independent=indep.
}}

and translates all Czech Republic department titles and few terms to English. For Czech there is Template:Czech_Republic/cs used for Czech language governments articles.

The content of Latin Template:Czech_Republic_2021/Latin translation is:

{{Czech_Republic_2021
|{{{PARAMS}}}
|Milos_Zeman=Miloš Zeman
|Petr_Pavel=Petr Pavel
|Petr_Fiala=Petr Fiala
|Anna_Hubackova=Anna Hubáčková
|Marian_Jurecka=Marian Jurečka
|Petr_Hladik=Petr Hladík
|Zdenek_Nekula=Zdeněk Nekula
|Marek_Vyborny=Marek Výborný
|Vlastimil_Valek=Vlastimil Válek
|Jan_Lipavsky=Jan Lipavský
|Vit_Rakusan=Vít Rakušan
|Petr_Gazdik=Petr Gazdík
|Vladimir_Balas=Vladimír Balaš
|Mikulas_Bek=Mikuláš Bek
|Pavel_Blazek=Pavel Blažek
|Jozef_Sikela=Jozef Síkela
|Helena_Langsadlova=Helena Langšádlová
|Ivan_Bartos=Ivan Bartoš
|Michal_Salomoun=Michal Šalomoun
|Martin_Dvorak=Martin Dvořák
|Jana_Cernochova=Jana Černochová
|Martin_Baxa=Martin Baxa
|Zbynek_Stanjura=Zbyněk Stanjura
|Martin_Kupka=Martin Kupka
|Marek_Zenisek=Marek Ženíšek
|Petr_Kulhanek=Petr Kulhánek
|Lukas_Vlcek=Lukáš Vlček
}}

and provides all Czech Republic 2021 representatives' names in Latin script, used in English Czech_Republic_2021 as well as in Czech ČR_2021.

This way the English Czech Republic 2021 governments article

{{Czech_Republic/en|Czech_Republic_2021/Latin}}

as well as Czech ČR 2021

{{Czech_Republic/cs|Czech_Republic_2021/Latin
|opt_Martin_Dvorak=Martin_Dvořák_(politik)
|opt_Lukas_Vlcek=Lukáš_Vlček_(politik)
|opt_Petr_Kulhanek=Petr_Kulhánek_(politik)
}}

are made. The Czech additionally passes optional {{{opt_}}} variables used for different representative wikipedia link instead of plain representative name.

The order of ministry titles in government article:
They can be clearly sorted alphabetically by title in national language and if it looks good possibly also in reversed order. For me it went well to begin with environment, agriculture, health and foreign affairs, which is maybe mainly for developed countries.

To begin with creating general government template there is useful sample Template:Sample_Country_2020-2024.

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