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=== Dialect spellings ===

Occasionally there will be entries in which a word comes up in an alias or word definition which would be useful for finding the page but has different spellings in different countries, such as "color" and "colour". While it is okay to pick one and use it consistently for any particular page, you also want people to be able to search for the page by using either term. There are a few different ways to do this.

Within definitions on Term pages, you can simply use HTML comments to group the spellings together: <code>&lt;li&gt;A color between blue and green.   &lt;!-- color colour --&gt;</code>

Within Item aliases, include the alternate spellings in parentheses, generally along with a field this way of referring to things is used in: <code>color between blue and green (colour; arts)</code>

If for some reason the matter of country spellings becomes a big problem where two countries both want the whole page in their own dialect, it is acceptable to create a second localized page for a particular dialect, such that if the main entry is <code>Q6,18</code> (implying <code>Q6,18/en</code>) the localized entry might be <code>Q6,18/en-AU</code>. While MediaWiki's page language feature does not inherently support giving pages country-specific language codes, the multilingual alias box pattern is independent of this feature, meaning pages can be created for any dialect if editors deem it important.