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A discussion of where to place {{ Sister bar}} on articles is now open at WT:MOSLAYOUT. Please feel free to join the discussion! — hike395 ( talk) 19:40, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Module:Sister project links has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Please can line 418 of Module:Sister project links be edited from:
"'''%s''' at Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects|<span id=\"sister-projects\">sister projects</span>]]"
to:
"<b>%s</b> at Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects|<span id=\"sister-projects\">sister projects</span>]]"
At the moment, articles that start with an apostrophe (such as
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', which has this template) break the formatting, as the renderer puts the first '
of '''
on its own line above the rest of the title, outside the bold formatting.
I've tested the above fix at Module:Module sandbox, and it's working as expected. ‑‑ Yodin T 15:03, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
For the paramter qid
there is no description! It seems that with this parameter you can define a search string for wikidata, but this is already possible with parameter q
. Or does it something more? Regards --
W like wiki
good to know 12:50, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
|q=
is something entirely different: it is for displaying links to Wikiquote. |d=
links to Wikidata, but does not force the entire template to behave as if it were on a different article. —
hike395 (
talk) 16:03, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
|d=
. So Done. Thx! --
W like wiki
good to know 17:08, 9 February 2023 (UTC)Hello and hello @ Hike395: I think the Parameter "iw" (Wikipedia link) is not needed. Interlanguage links are not interproject links. A Wikipedia link here in this box is a bit irritating. Sure, the case is different if this box is in a Wikiversity or Wiktionary article, but here on Wikipedia a link to another language edition of Wikipedia should not appear under sister projects. Agree? Regards -- W like wiki good to know 17:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
|iw=
simply allows editors to fold that link into this box, instead of forcing a completely separate box which looks ugly (see right).This
edit request to
Module:Sister project links has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello and hello @ Hike395: it would be nice if the the order of the wikivoyage and wikiversity links could be switched. First profite: Textbooks (wikibooks) and wikiversity are displayed together. Second: All projects that default to "yes" when auto=no (bold) are displayed together. So the order will be:
before | after |
---|---|
Regards -- W like wiki good to know 17:37, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Module:Sister project links has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The wording provided by the "iw" parameter, "<Language> Edition from Wikipedia" (seen, for example, in the articles for Swahili and Bulgarian), seems awkward. "<Language> Edition of Wikipedia" would be better. - dcljr ( talk) 01:44, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
|iw=es
, I get:|iw=
is only used on articles about languages. Following {{
InterWiki}}, the iw links in the sister box don't link to a corresponding article in the other edition, they link to the main page of the other edition. In other words, the link is not to the "Article about the Spanish language in the Spanish edition of Wikipedia", it's truly the "Spanish edition of Wikipedia". —
hike395 (
talk) 13:13, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
|iw=
in the documentation; hence my confusion. (Also, I did not actually click on the link when I tried it at John Dalton, which is lazy on my part).|iw=
is used on
articles other than language articles.|iw=
links just take me to the main page, as you describe. That seems like a missed opportunity, and a possible
WP:EGG problem (see, for example, the link at
Avigliana castle). I wonder how difficult it would be to make the |iw=
link work like {{
ill}}, possibly pulling the proper link title from Wikidata. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 13:45, 15 April 2023 (UTC)|iw=
in
French language, where the heading of this template says "French language at Wikipedia's sister projects", but the link does not take you to
fr:Français. I propose that this parameter be removed entirely or radically reformatted to show that the heading "XXX language at Wikipedia's sister projects" does not apply to the "XXX edition of Wikipedia" link. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:02, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
|iw=
on non-language articles is Wrong, and that the link goes to the Main Page.Hello! I don't know enough about templates to know how to fix this, but I found that when this template is used, sometimes when selecting the option to fill in defaults from Wikidata it only shows a Wikimedia Commons link - and when this happens, the box format changes to match the format of the Commons category box, except that it's missing the period normally included at the end of the sentence. (See examples at right)
Template:Sister project links is permanently
protected from editing because it is a
heavily used or highly visible template. Substantial changes should first be proposed and discussed here on this page. If the proposal is uncontroversial or has been discussed and is supported by
consensus, editors may use {{
edit template-protected}} to notify an administrator or template editor to make the requested edit. Usually, any contributor may edit the template's
documentation to add usage notes or
categories.
Any contributor may edit the template's sandbox. Functionality of the template can be checked using test cases. |
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Sister project links template. |
|
Archives: 1, 2Auto-archiving period: 365 days |
A discussion of where to place {{ Sister bar}} on articles is now open at WT:MOSLAYOUT. Please feel free to join the discussion! — hike395 ( talk) 19:40, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Module:Sister project links has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Please can line 418 of Module:Sister project links be edited from:
"'''%s''' at Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects|<span id=\"sister-projects\">sister projects</span>]]"
to:
"<b>%s</b> at Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects|<span id=\"sister-projects\">sister projects</span>]]"
At the moment, articles that start with an apostrophe (such as
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', which has this template) break the formatting, as the renderer puts the first '
of '''
on its own line above the rest of the title, outside the bold formatting.
I've tested the above fix at Module:Module sandbox, and it's working as expected. ‑‑ Yodin T 15:03, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
For the paramter qid
there is no description! It seems that with this parameter you can define a search string for wikidata, but this is already possible with parameter q
. Or does it something more? Regards --
W like wiki
good to know 12:50, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
|q=
is something entirely different: it is for displaying links to Wikiquote. |d=
links to Wikidata, but does not force the entire template to behave as if it were on a different article. —
hike395 (
talk) 16:03, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
|d=
. So Done. Thx! --
W like wiki
good to know 17:08, 9 February 2023 (UTC)Hello and hello @ Hike395: I think the Parameter "iw" (Wikipedia link) is not needed. Interlanguage links are not interproject links. A Wikipedia link here in this box is a bit irritating. Sure, the case is different if this box is in a Wikiversity or Wiktionary article, but here on Wikipedia a link to another language edition of Wikipedia should not appear under sister projects. Agree? Regards -- W like wiki good to know 17:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
|iw=
simply allows editors to fold that link into this box, instead of forcing a completely separate box which looks ugly (see right).This
edit request to
Module:Sister project links has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello and hello @ Hike395: it would be nice if the the order of the wikivoyage and wikiversity links could be switched. First profite: Textbooks (wikibooks) and wikiversity are displayed together. Second: All projects that default to "yes" when auto=no (bold) are displayed together. So the order will be:
before | after |
---|---|
Regards -- W like wiki good to know 17:37, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Module:Sister project links has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The wording provided by the "iw" parameter, "<Language> Edition from Wikipedia" (seen, for example, in the articles for Swahili and Bulgarian), seems awkward. "<Language> Edition of Wikipedia" would be better. - dcljr ( talk) 01:44, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
|iw=es
, I get:|iw=
is only used on articles about languages. Following {{
InterWiki}}, the iw links in the sister box don't link to a corresponding article in the other edition, they link to the main page of the other edition. In other words, the link is not to the "Article about the Spanish language in the Spanish edition of Wikipedia", it's truly the "Spanish edition of Wikipedia". —
hike395 (
talk) 13:13, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
|iw=
in the documentation; hence my confusion. (Also, I did not actually click on the link when I tried it at John Dalton, which is lazy on my part).|iw=
is used on
articles other than language articles.|iw=
links just take me to the main page, as you describe. That seems like a missed opportunity, and a possible
WP:EGG problem (see, for example, the link at
Avigliana castle). I wonder how difficult it would be to make the |iw=
link work like {{
ill}}, possibly pulling the proper link title from Wikidata. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 13:45, 15 April 2023 (UTC)|iw=
in
French language, where the heading of this template says "French language at Wikipedia's sister projects", but the link does not take you to
fr:Français. I propose that this parameter be removed entirely or radically reformatted to show that the heading "XXX language at Wikipedia's sister projects" does not apply to the "XXX edition of Wikipedia" link. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 15:02, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
|iw=
on non-language articles is Wrong, and that the link goes to the Main Page.Hello! I don't know enough about templates to know how to fix this, but I found that when this template is used, sometimes when selecting the option to fill in defaults from Wikidata it only shows a Wikimedia Commons link - and when this happens, the box format changes to match the format of the Commons category box, except that it's missing the period normally included at the end of the sentence. (See examples at right)