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Australian Flag
mailmanmickey 20:43, 7 June 2023 (UTC+10)
The Australian flag should probably be changed from
au to en-au, and it should be given the tooltip Australian English (en-au) as it is somewhat language specific.
Max_34 15:02, 7 June 2023 (UTC+4)
The template uses
{{#language:<lang code>}} to display the name of the language. From such languages, it can make for example en-GB (British English) or en-CA (Canadian English), but there is no en-au (or en-AU) in it, so it will not give out its name, but only give out what was entered: en-AU. In order to implement this name, you will have to improve the template (complicating it, thereby), or ask the administration to modify the {{#language:}} function and add this code with the name to it, if possible.
mailmanmickey 21:54, 7 June 2023 (UTC+10)
Ah, that's unfortunate.
Well, I'm not really looking to put in any effort for such a small issue, so I suppose I'll just leave the template be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Border around flags
Pee 16:32, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
It appears most flags currently have a 1 pixel border around them that's slightly darker than the rest of the image (example: 
). In updating some of these flags to be clearer in lower resolutions, I'm wondering if it makes sense to remove this outline from them.
). In updating some of these flags to be clearer in lower resolutions, I'm wondering if it makes sense to remove this outline from them.
Wisdurm 19:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC+2)
I feel like it makes them look nicer, although they're barely visible since the flags are usually so small.
Pee 17:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
I think the flags can be pretty hard to see with no contrast against the background, so I think they look better without the border. I could go either way, but it's kind of tedious to add a border to each of them.
Pee 18:14, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
I see what you mean now. I updated the french flag to use the official standard, and it's very hard to see the blue on the dark background without any border.
Changing the resolution
Pee 18:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Relating to updating the flags, should the resolution be changed? 16 by 11 is a very annoying resolution to work with. I think we should switch to a a 12*18 flag This would make the flags easier to see in a slightly higher resolution, as well as have an easy to work with 2:3 aspect ratio. the length and widths being multiples of 3 would also mean tricolors like the russian or french flag could have equally sized bands.
