Thread:DerPresenz/@comment-44386818-20200817014609

Please don’t delete the ruby templates! They are used to annotate difficult characters and avoid nested parentheses. There is an instance where, without ruby characters, we wrote:


 * Aruka Rudo (在架ルド(あるか るど))

With Ruby characters, the same text would become:
 * Aruka Rudo ( 在架（あるか） ルド)

Ruby text elements are an HTML feature that has been supported since Chrome 5 (2010) and Firefox 38 (2015). MediaWiki accepts the ruby tags. In the previous example, you would normally write:

Aruka Rudo ( 在架 （あるか） ルド)

You start with a  tag, put the Kanji in an   tag, and finally put the annotative glosses in an   tag. Optionally, you include the  tags so that old browsers can fall back to using parentheses. The  attribute is necessary because of UniHan: Kanji rendering is dependent on the user’s OS language unless you specify a   attribute.

As you can see, the HTML can get quite tedious. With the help of, we can simply write

Aruka Rudo (ルド)

In other words, ruby is a MediaWiki feature. Even without the template, you can’t stop people from writing the raw HTML and achieving the same effect. The markup can look intimidating to contributors who are unfamiliar with the syntax, however, and as shown above, it is hard to “get that right” if you don’t know what UniHan is or how most browsers deal with unknown HTML tags. The template was ported off Wikipedia to simplify editing and make articles look nice. It is useful. Don’t delete it!<ac_metadata title="Please don’t delete the ruby templates"> </ac_metadata>