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Hi,
Could you look into the issue of {{ Flatlist}} causing slowness alleged in ( this reverting edit sumamry and discussed at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#List markup, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
parameter. I've implemented an alternative method. See talk page for details. --
WOSlinker (
talk)
16:14, 29 December 2011 (UTC)I've tried to deploy HLIST in {{ WPMILHIST Announcements/sandbox}} but can't get it to work. It's complex! Can you work your usual magic, when you have a few minutes free, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
For doing an excellent job helping support accessibility on Wikipedia by adding the hlist feature to navboxes! Sadads ( talk) 13:56, 30 December 2011 (UTC) |
I'll second that! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Just curious, what's the status of discussions about merging in that last template? Is this something that we could get back to doing at some point in the new year? Imzadi 1979 → 06:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Just a courtesy note to let you know I've reverted your recent addition of the Bing link to db-meta as a temporary measure, as it's forcing unconfirmed users to go through Captcha. see the discussion page of the template and WP:VPT for details. An optimist on the run! 10:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Just curious about this edit...why was this done? — Huntster ( t @ c) 21:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I think your input would be useful. Thanks. Alarbus ( talk) 13:06, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
if you have a chance, could you take care of this request, and do the same for template:campaign? I would like to clean up the nesting in Template:Campaignbox Iraq War. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 20:02, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please update {{ Infobox Speedway rider}} and {{ Infobox military person}} to use bare filenames? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:04, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
I updated {{ Infobox military person}} to use bare filenames but updating the pages was proven painful. I really need your help on this one. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:04, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Maybe you could your magic to the football player too? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I tried to ensure {{ px}} is used in all infoboxes. Please take a look when you find some spare time. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
In User:Magioladitis/Sandbox you can find my custom module for converting images to bare filenames. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
We need to use birth_date and death_date. I can fix the infoboxes afterwards. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
More and more editors support standardisation of Infobox comics creator. I think now we can replace yob/mob/dob with birth_date. Can you please help? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:37, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Template_talk:Infobox_comics_creator#yob_.26_yod_params might be interesting for you. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:04, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Infobox simplified. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:43, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
if you would like me to help, I can update your script to fix multi-item spanning bold and italics. without it, you are basically screwing up the italics in templates like you did here. I recently added code in my own script to address this issue. Frietjes ( talk) 21:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
put the following in your script, near the top before you start the conversion to hlist
while( myContent.search(/(?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*(\'?\'\')(?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*(?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·))[ ]*\1/gi) >= 0 ) { myContent = myContent.replace(/((?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*)(\'?\'\')((?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*)((?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)))[ ]*\2/gi, '$1$2$3$2$4'); } while( myContent.search(/(?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*\'?\'\'(?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*(?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·))/gi) >= 0 ) { myContent = myContent.replace(/((?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*)(\'?\'\')((?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*)((?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)))/gi, '$1$2$3$2$4$2'); }
this convert the multi-item spanning italic and bold stuff into something that won't be mangled by your script. you can try it on an old version of the Holtzbrinck template to test it. by the way if you are using User:WOSlinker/hlist.js to do your conversions, I have some fixes and massive simplifications for that script, for example, you should replace
myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{nowrap begin\}\}\n/g,'\n* '); myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{nowrap begin\}\}/g,'\n* '); myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{Nowrap begin\}\}\n/g,'\n* '); myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{Nowrap begin\}\}/g,'\n* ');
with
myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{[_ ]*[Nn]owrap[_ ]+begin[_ ]*\}\}[ ]*[\n]?/gm,'\n* ');
which is far more robust and covers all four cases, and added the cases where there is extra whitespace. also, everywhere you repeat code for both • and · just use [•·] which will match either one. Frietjes ( talk) 22:14, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
I just found another one your script is missing here. if you would like to correct this, you can add
myContent = myContent.replace(/(\{\{)[ _]*((?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|))[ _]*(\}\})/g, '$1$2$3');
near the top of your script, which will remove the leading and trailing spaces and underscores before you start other conversions. then, you don't need to worry about them later. the alternative would be to add a '[_ ]*' everywhere you match bullet delimiters. Frietjes ( talk) 17:27, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
one more thing. I added the following sanity check at the bottom of my script. it checks for possibly mangled italics or bold markup, which could have either been caused by this script, when it split multibullet spanning italics and bolds (or failed to do so), or it could have been there before the conversions. either way it's good to check them by hand:
// Error checks myContent = myContent.replace(/([\r\n](?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*\'\'(?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*)([\r\n])/gi, '$1<!-- CHECK ITALICS -->$2'); myContent = myContent.replace(/([\r\n](?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*\'\'\'(?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*)([\r\n])/gi, '$1<!-- CHECK BOLD -->$2'); if( myContent.search(/<!-- CHECK (?:BOLD|ITALICS) -->/gi) >= 0 ) { myContent = "<!-- CHECK BOLD OR ITALICS! -->\n" + myContent; }
what it does is add a comment at the very top telling you to check for these errors, and also marks the line in the template where it found the error. I have it add the line at the top so you can immediately see it in the edit window, and know to look further down. otherwise you might miss the warning. you can see an example of what I was able to detect and correct here. Frietjes ( talk) 17:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject Water sports - does exist! Satu Suro 03:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you made some edits to some of the historical newsletters. I think that if you watch them for a couple months you can probably mark them as historical. Its doubtful anyone else will make any more (although I hope I am wrong honestly) so there's probably not a huge return on investment for cleaning up the coding on them. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:13, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOSlinker,
Thanks for your work on
Template:Harold Budd. I've seen similar edits before but couldn't quite find out if it's protocol, so the link to
WP:Hlist is quite helpful. I'll use it on the templates I've been working on besides Budd. Cheers,
— Quibus (
talk)
19:20, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Your recent changes to Template:Uir have produced some undesired results. Over 1,000 templates invoke this template. The |info-class=nowraplinks parameter is useful for many of these templates, but causes problems for many others. Most commonly, the use of |info-class=nowraplinks may cause the WikiProject name to extend beyond the userbox width when |option=41. This may also occur for other options. Examples include:
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participates in WikiProject Andaman and Nicobar Islands. |
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participates in WikiProject Arunachal Pradesh. |
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participates in WikiProject Dadra and Nagar Haveli. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject New South Wales. |
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participates in WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador. |
![]() | This user lives in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
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participates in WikiProject Prince Edward Island. |
Please check each option before adding |info-class=nowraplinks. Yours aye, Buaidh 15:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please convert this template to transclude {{ Infobox}}? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
My method fixed more than 7,000 pages. Now only 5,000 pages left. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:53, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
It needs to add birth/death date/place parameters. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Done by me. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
Good work. Alarbus ( talk) 21:22, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
Headings should be visible only if at least one parameter is set. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:22, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Infobox MLB manager has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:26, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey there,
Thanks for contacting me when you reverted my adding an external script to Common.js. Is there a standing policy about this? I realise externally hosted scripts aren't really ideal (considering server load, all that sort of thing), but I would prefer to keep it hosted there while I'm actively developing it (which will only be for another hour or two) and then move it to a gadget when I'm done. It's only done on a single low-traffic page for development purposes. If there is indeed a general policy against external scripts, do you think I'd be able to make an exception for an hour or two?
— Andrew Garrett • talk 22:26, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
I know that under WP:OWN i do not own any of the templates that I've created, but may I ask why did you move Template:Agricultural engineer to User agricultural engineer ? and the same for the civil engineer template? Abhijay What did I do this time? 12:59, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Could you look at {{ Jct}}? An editor requested the type US-Temp be created and he went and created the subtemplates ({{ Infobox road/NJ/shield US-Temp}}, {{ Infobox road/NJ/link US-Temp}}, and {{ Infobox road/NJ/abbrev US-Temp}}) that would have been deprecated when you did your consolidation work in the last year. From what I can tell, whatever feeds {{ Jct/banner}} isn't accepting US-Temp as a type. I can't make heads or tails of the template. Thanks. – Fredddie ™ 03:34, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
{{Jct|state=NJ|US-Temp|9|dab1=Beesley's Point}}
Thanks for uploading File:Samsung Galaxy Tab.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOSlinker, I noticed that you do a lot of template work. I was wondering if you could help me on Tehran_Province#References: the templates Provinces of Iran and Tehran Province have some sort of bizarre overlap on that page and are a mess, but I haven't been able to fix them. If you can help, or know someone that can, that would be great. Thanks in advance. Acalamari 11:47, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
User_talk:Frietjes#More_help_needed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:25, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned you (though not by name) here: < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33189#c1>. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. I attempted adding the CSS you suggested to my vector.js page (I'm using the vector skin, just to be clear!) yet I'm still seeing uppercase links... Any ideas where I went wrong? Thanks, Nik the stoned 15:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for all your good work applying hlist
. Are you using a script, and, if so, how can I do so?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
12:28, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:WOSlinker/hlist.js');
or copy the whole source in and then you will see a "hlist" button near the talk / edit / history buttons. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 18:13, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
'
, for emboldening or italicisation?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
22:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
|above=
or |below=
include a list, apply the class to |bodyclass=
instead of |listclass=
.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
23:32, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Another thing I've done is add the following to my monobook.css page to make it more noticeable when a list has been updated. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 21:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
/* Make it a bit bigger and purple so that it stands out from unconverted lists */
.hlist dd:after,
.hlist dt:after,
.hlist li:after {
content: " ♦";
font-weight: bold;
color: purple;
}
Can you explain to me what you exactly have done? It is a mystery to me what is the effect on Template:County Clare, except for a smaller template. Night of the Big Wind talk 15:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
I am using the hlist script and it is awesome. I think making navboxes easier to navigate will encourage less experienced users to edit them. Thanks for doing what you do. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Your script had to be manually assisted with this, and with this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. Next: instances of {{
US county navigation box}} don't get |listclass=hlist
; see
this example. No problem if you want to bunch fixes, rather than giving immediate responses.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
14:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Another one which give your script problems. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:22, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Also not working on {{ Muriel Spark}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:43, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
And another: {{ Top of the Pops}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
And again; I ( converted this one manually. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Also {{ SDFCS Awards Chron}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you make the script work with {{ Campaign}}, too, please? Here's a ( conversion ) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:42, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
How about comma-separated lists, like {{ Jalilabad Rayon}}? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
In similar vein; period-separated lists, like {{ Nineveh plains}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:21, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Could you make the script work with {{ Sidebar}}, please; for example: {{ Maya civilization}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:05, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Likewise {{ Navbox education in Canada}} - no rush! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:45, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
And here's anther one your script doesn't yet do: {{ Members of the European Parliament 2009–2014}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:06, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
And {{ Railway stations in Oxfordshire}}, please. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Also {{ Country history}}; failed in this edit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:36, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Please can you look at making the script work with templates like {{ Infobox Olympics Lebanon}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
All comments welcome at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey#Accessibility. Frietjes ( talk) 22:04, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Ya, input needed here. Alarbus ( talk) 02:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Please could you update the Template:Birth date and age so that it is the same as Template:Birth date and age/sandbox? I have added the ability to sort by date of birth when the template is used in wikitable. TheBigJagielka ( talk) 12:47, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
...for cleaning up after me! :) And sorry for the mess in the first place. I'm not entirely sure why I created the test in the template namespace, and even less why I didn't remove it afterwards. Cheers, Waldir talk 21:52, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
You might find {{ Wraps infobox}} useful. It currently adds a category; we could make that switchable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring 2012!
Mifter (
talk)
22:54, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you please add medaltemplates support to all infoboxes about sportsmen or at least make v list of the infoboxes lacking it so I can add it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:07, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for updating my infobox thing,
Much Appreciated,
Kind Regards,
Can you please add medaltemplates support to all infoboxes about sportsmen or at least make v list of the infoboxes lacking it so I can add it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:07, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for updating my infobox thing,
Much Appreciated,
Kind Regards,
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
Thank you for your fix on the Ballet template. Dkreisst ( talk) 00:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC) |
Do you think you could kindly help with this request, to add tracking categories to {{ Geobox}}, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:15, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I've removed geobox tracking by reverting to before your recent edits as it was resulting in a non-functional category message at the article top, for example [[Category:Geobox usage tracking for other type|PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCE Wyoming Basin]] was showing as the top line at Wyoming Basin and similar on other pages. Rather than messing with the code I simply went back to a clean version. Please fix it if it is to be used. Vsmith ( talk) 20:05, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
These have been very useful; thank you again. Could I now trouble you to take a look at Template_talk:Geobox#Mountains, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:17, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
{{ Byzantine Empire topics}} has a separator that's not recognised by your script Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Updating Template:Infobox Dalai Lama to use {{ Infobox}} should be easy now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:18, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Database reports/Unbelievable life spans is hot off the press and you've already corrected many of the entries. Nice work. :-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 18:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Do you think you could replace the instances of Template:Infobox AFLretired with Template:Infobox AFL player or Template:Infobox AFL biography? Any of the two would be fine. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:05, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Infobox AFLretired needs to be updated to support birth_place and death_place and seperate the parameters in the infoboxes and remove Color and fontcolor from them too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:27, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I think I partially did it but someone needs to check and finish the job. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:57, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Moreover, height needs to be merged in a single parameter. This is the first step before we separate height and weight parameters in the remaining infoboxes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
stat1label needs to change to statlabel1 and stat1value needs to change to statvalue1 to fit all other infoboxes that use the same method. The same for other numbers. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
|
is used as the separator. Not a huge deal, because I just run a search and replace on navboxes that use this, but it would make things easier if the script was able to treat |
the same way it treats, say, {{
!}}. Cheers,
Jenks24 (
talk)
21:55, 24 April 2012 (UTC)Some instances of the infobox still use ImageWidth instead of image_size. Can you please fix them for me? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:03, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Could you explain your last edit to {{ Infobox mountain}}?11:28, 8 May 2012 (UTC) – droll [chat] 17:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Not quite sure how this happened but {{ infobox mountain}} seems to be malfunctioning with regards to the location map.
It should display the relief map by default (normally the alt map), falling back to the default when not available or specifically requested. However, that behaviour seems to have been reversed recently. Can't see any reason for that on the talk page and documentation seems to support this as an error.
As you are most recent editor (and know your way round these templates) could you have a look?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 23:10, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
you should be able to get this to work, but I think you need to add the "!important" keyword to override the default. so, instead of
text-align: inherit;
use say
text-align: inherit !important;
but I could be wrong since I can't really test it (or maybe I could try it in my own personal css file). Frietjes ( talk) 22:36, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
/* lists in data cells are always left-aligned unless they also use the hlist class */ .wikitable.hlist td ul, .wikitable.hlist td ol, .wikitable.hlist td dl { text-align: inherit !important; }
Hi, Although I'm on a wikibreak I noticed you had made the infobox show on Montacute House. You might want to take a look at the talk page where this was discussed at great length & the collapsed infobox used as a compromise. Some of the major editors of this article might object to your action - although I'm all in favour - as you can see from the discussion.— Rod talk 19:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
You recently removed template nowrap from a few navboxes that I've created. Actually, nowrap is needed here, otherwise there will be linebreaks at undesired places (in the middle of an entity). I've seen it myself.
So if you don't mind, I'll revert this on "my" templates.
Regards
HandsomeFella ( talk) 09:43, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
.navbox .hlist dd,
.navbox .hlist dt,
.navbox .hlist li {
white-space: nowrap; /* Nowrap list items in navboxes */
white-space: normal !ie; /* IE < 8 no-wraps entire list, so disable it */
}
Could you look at {{
Jctint/conversion}}
? It works just great, but I discovered on
U.S. Route 161#Major intersections that inputting 10 miles will convert to 20 km instead of 16 km. I had admin put in what I thought would fix the issue, but I discovered that over 100 miles, the km column was rounding to the nearest 10 km. Thanks. –
Fredddie
™
03:06, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:DRV#Template:Membership. Frietjes ( talk) 00:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Could you please link me the discussion where the community decided that "placeholder image" is forbidden? See this Category:Infobox person using placeholder image. In far far 2008, this discussion, the decision to delete don't reached consensus. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 06:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! May I ask your opinion whether a parameter for "personal best/s" will be also suitable at the T:infobox swimmer? See T:infobox athlete as an example. Cheers. CeeGee ( talk) 14:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOS. Template:Userspace draft calls Template:New unreviewed article which calls Template:Ambox and I am trying to get the substitution detection working by passing subst through. It's not working as I hoped - can you take a look? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 06:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOSlinker, I see from Special:Contributions/WOSlinker that you've made thousands of edits, single-handedly converting all the Navigational boxes without horizontal lists to use the hlist class. Are you doing this manually? Shouldn't there be some way to write a bot or at least use AWB to help with the job? Set theorist ( talk) 09:53, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the improvements to the Balanchine ballets template. — Robert Greer ( talk) 21:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for working on the language categories. But please don't add zero level categories. There is long standing previous consensus to not have zero level language categories. (You're not the only one - I've heard that there is a bot somewhere automatically creating them too.) - jc37 17:03, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
Ok, quick question. When we added the "extra" parameter, {{ jct/extra}} was created to handle which graphic was displayed between airports, etc. I just added a switch so that if the country=AUS, then the airport graphic is switched to one with a blue background. Can you add whatever we need to pass the country through to that subtemplate so that the switch works? Thanks! Imzadi 1979 → 07:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for adding a category to {{ User 1ofActive}}, you prompted me to put it in its proper category Category:Edit user templates. For future reference, Category:Userboxes should contain only subcategories, userboxes should be put in a specific subcategory or Category:Unsorted userboxes. ··gracefool ☺ 16:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
for your great work in creating and managing templates ► robomod 10:42, 24 June 2012 (UTC) |
The Template:Hide if placeholder image (bravo!) doesn't seem to work in Template:Infobox person for the article Narges Mohammadi. I can't understand why not. Do you? -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 13:48, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
In short, we could use someone who understands how jct works well enough to make a sibling template, {{ jctname}} or similar. The idea would be that it would work substantially the same with a twist in the output, and hopefully use all of the subtemplates and back end that's in place.
Instead of getting:
AK-9 (
Seward Highway) –
Anchorage
we'd get:
Seward Highway (
AK-9) –
Anchorage
Basically, it would put the priority on the names over the numbers, usable for places like Alaska or Australia where the names have the priority, and any numbers are secondary. There's a discussion about it over at
Template talk:Jct#Coding Jct to allow "name (route)", but it's an outgrowth of additional discussions at
WT:RJL and the Western Australia WikiProject.
Imzadi 1979
→
07:33, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
See ny proposal to make this category Category:English List A limited-overs cricketers into a list, as a more appropriate format. Hugo999 ( talk) 02:31, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:State highways in Washington related to I-82 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Imzadi 1979
→
06:53, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. When I set up the template I had an idea I might be doing something wrong, but wasn't sure what it was Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:34, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. There is a try to revive WikiProject Infoboxes by doing some tasks. One of these is to support bare filenames in all infoboxes. Can you help on that? You are invited to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes with ideas, suggestions and ofcourse your edits :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:23, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Maybe you are interested in helping us with Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Infoboxes#Task:_Start_cleaning_pages_that_have_New_infobox_in_their_talk_page. There are some wikitables taht need to be converted in Infoboxes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:59, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for editing the coding. Now I can much more easily read it and update as necessary :) ₪Rickn Asia₪ 14:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for your helpful response at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) to correct formatting errors that were occurring with Template:Deletion sorting. The template is working correctly at this time! Northamerica1000 (talk) 06:51, 6 August 2012 (UTC) |
I think using includeonly inside noinclude in Template:Paris Métro Line 12 is wrong. Can you please check and fix? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:43, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Infoboxes#Task:_URL_parameter_standardisation? We could for instance start with Infoboxes about persons. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:50, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
seems not very controversial, but I posted a thread for adding hlist to Infobox music genre. Frietjes ( talk) 20:40, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
.navbox .hlist dd,
.navbox .hlist dt,
.navbox .hlist li {
white-space: nowrap; /* Nowrap list items in navboxes */
white-space: normal !ie; /* IE < 8 no-wraps entire list, so disable it */
}
.navbox .hlist dd dl,
.navbox .hlist dt dl,
.navbox .hlist li ol,
.navbox .hlist li ul {
white-space: normal; /* But allow parent list items to be wrapped */
}
Thisistheheader |
|
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Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Infoboxes#Chnage_Infobox_University_to_support_bare_filenames_for_images. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:29, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Some pages of {{
Infobox gridiron football person}} still use the old ImageWidth parameter. It should be renamed to image_size. |Color=
and |fontcolor=
should be removed. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
12:31, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Template talk:WikiProject United States#Error in template-- Traveler100 ( talk) 05:13, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Category:Heroes task force, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. WrestleMania XXVIII The Undertaker 20–0 06:47, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:Citation needed cheap has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --
Beland (
talk)
14:48, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
I asked a question at User_talk:Magioladitis#priority parameter. Also, could you explain the ifeq statement? I've never seen one like that before. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, please can you explain why you created {{ Flatlist/microformat}}? Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Can you please add birth_date and death_date support in addition to the existing ones? Nobody disagreed in the talk page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:45, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Updates_to_.7B.7BInfobox_automobile.7D.7D_et_al.. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:31, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I also removed historical parameters: similar, parent_company, fuel_capacity, fuel_economy, electric_range. There may be some leftovers due to unbalanced brackets. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:03, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
If you have any handy tool to convert filenames please use it or tell me how to use it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:08, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I created User:Yobot/Automobile but it needs adjustments. Any corrections accepted. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:16, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Main problem: We need to find in |image=
values of the form [[file:example.jpg]]caption here and move the caption to the |caption=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
17:15, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
We also need a tracking category or a list for pages with two Files in |image=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
17:50, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
If we have more infoboxes where we can convert them to bare filenames, I have a script now with which I can do the job. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
I tried adding the above flag that checks for the presence of the KML page. It displays fine, but when a KML page is added, it does not refresh the category; a null edit is required to fix it. Do you have any ideas as to why that is? -- Rs chen 7754 00:07, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I seemingly cannot shake the habit of using brackets in if … then … end
. You seemingly cannot shake the habit of semicolons at the ends of statements. ☺
Uncle G (
talk)
13:53, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I am interested of why you made this change? The default color has been always present, but was lost during the recent conversion to the meta-template. It was not a new addition. I only fixed an error. Ruslik_ Zero 10:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I have done some major refactoring of Module:Convert to implement my plan to create the required data table from a master list. I have put the resulting data into the module, and the source list is here. If we agree on that procedure, it will be important that updates to the conversion data occur in the master list only—data in the module should not be changed except by copying the results of processing the master list.
I am working on a list I have created by copying all data from Template:Convert/list of units (and each of the "full list" pages that it links to). I hope to update my master list with nearly all the conversion data in a few days, but several details will have to be determined before it is complete (for one thing, the power units are not documented). Johnuniq ( talk) 11:51, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Template:Football in El Salvador and similar. I created Template:Football in Costa Rica/doc. Please check for mistakes and if possible fix more of them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:10, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, please could explain why you have changed {{Navbox subgroups
to {{Navbox|child
at
Template:India topics. The
Navbox documentation recommends using {{Navbox subgroup}}
so I was wondering whether there is a reason for doing it like this?
Lmatt (
talk)
02:48, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
There are a talk pages not showing up in Category:Biography articles with blank priority parameter
Some examples are: Talk:Alain Junior Ollé Ollé, Talk:Albert Duro, Talk:Barrie Vagg and Talk:Billy Payne (footballer). The last two have been since correct.
What is weird is that at the bottom of the talk pages, it does say they are part of the category. Can you think of what is going on? Bgwhite ( talk) 08:35, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed some unexpected results from {{
convert}}. It often puts
between the output value and unit, but not between the input value and its unit. Also, for temperature, it uses custom nowrap html (in addition to nbsp for the output). The following shows two examples; the first line is the template, and the second is the resulting wikitext.
{{convert|10|mi|km}} 10 miles (16 km) {{convert|0|C|F}} <span style="white-space:nowrap;">0 °C</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">(32 °F)</span>
Can you think of a reason why the span element would be used? I'm thinking that Module:Convert should use nbsp for both the input and output units, and should not use span. Unfortunately that would break our testing because the module results would differ from the expected. I suppose I could start by trying to reproduce exactly what the template does, and remove the unnecessary span later? Ugly.
I think we should have an enwiki talk page to (occasionally) raise issues like this—preferably dedicated to convert as it is sufficiently complex. A talk page on test2 would be ok, but it would be one more page that probably should be imported to enwiki later (I'm thinking that some history of discussions might be useful). On such a page I would speculate about how a transition from template to module might occur (with difficulty!). Would such a talk page be useful? Where? Johnuniq ( talk) 03:49, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi,
Could you look into the issue of {{ Flatlist}} causing slowness alleged in ( this reverting edit sumamry and discussed at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#List markup, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:51, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
parameter. I've implemented an alternative method. See talk page for details. --
WOSlinker (
talk)
16:14, 29 December 2011 (UTC)I've tried to deploy HLIST in {{ WPMILHIST Announcements/sandbox}} but can't get it to work. It's complex! Can you work your usual magic, when you have a few minutes free, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
For doing an excellent job helping support accessibility on Wikipedia by adding the hlist feature to navboxes! Sadads ( talk) 13:56, 30 December 2011 (UTC) |
I'll second that! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Just curious, what's the status of discussions about merging in that last template? Is this something that we could get back to doing at some point in the new year? Imzadi 1979 → 06:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Just a courtesy note to let you know I've reverted your recent addition of the Bing link to db-meta as a temporary measure, as it's forcing unconfirmed users to go through Captcha. see the discussion page of the template and WP:VPT for details. An optimist on the run! 10:08, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Just curious about this edit...why was this done? — Huntster ( t @ c) 21:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I think your input would be useful. Thanks. Alarbus ( talk) 13:06, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
if you have a chance, could you take care of this request, and do the same for template:campaign? I would like to clean up the nesting in Template:Campaignbox Iraq War. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 20:02, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please update {{ Infobox Speedway rider}} and {{ Infobox military person}} to use bare filenames? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:04, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
I updated {{ Infobox military person}} to use bare filenames but updating the pages was proven painful. I really need your help on this one. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:04, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Maybe you could your magic to the football player too? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
I tried to ensure {{ px}} is used in all infoboxes. Please take a look when you find some spare time. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
In User:Magioladitis/Sandbox you can find my custom module for converting images to bare filenames. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
We need to use birth_date and death_date. I can fix the infoboxes afterwards. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
More and more editors support standardisation of Infobox comics creator. I think now we can replace yob/mob/dob with birth_date. Can you please help? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:37, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Template_talk:Infobox_comics_creator#yob_.26_yod_params might be interesting for you. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:04, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Infobox simplified. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:43, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
if you would like me to help, I can update your script to fix multi-item spanning bold and italics. without it, you are basically screwing up the italics in templates like you did here. I recently added code in my own script to address this issue. Frietjes ( talk) 21:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
put the following in your script, near the top before you start the conversion to hlist
while( myContent.search(/(?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*(\'?\'\')(?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*(?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·))[ ]*\1/gi) >= 0 ) { myContent = myContent.replace(/((?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*)(\'?\'\')((?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*)((?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)))[ ]*\2/gi, '$1$2$3$2$4'); } while( myContent.search(/(?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*\'?\'\'(?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*(?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·))/gi) >= 0 ) { myContent = myContent.replace(/((?:[\n]|=|\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)|\{\{nowrap[_ ]+begin\}\})[ ]*)(\'?\'\')((?:[^\'\n]|[^\'\n]\')*)((?:\{\{[ ]*(?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|)[ ]*\}\}|\&bull\;|(?:\ \;| )(?:•|·)))/gi, '$1$2$3$2$4$2'); }
this convert the multi-item spanning italic and bold stuff into something that won't be mangled by your script. you can try it on an old version of the Holtzbrinck template to test it. by the way if you are using User:WOSlinker/hlist.js to do your conversions, I have some fixes and massive simplifications for that script, for example, you should replace
myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{nowrap begin\}\}\n/g,'\n* '); myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{nowrap begin\}\}/g,'\n* '); myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{Nowrap begin\}\}\n/g,'\n* '); myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{Nowrap begin\}\}/g,'\n* ');
with
myContent = myContent.replace(/\{\{[_ ]*[Nn]owrap[_ ]+begin[_ ]*\}\}[ ]*[\n]?/gm,'\n* ');
which is far more robust and covers all four cases, and added the cases where there is extra whitespace. also, everywhere you repeat code for both • and · just use [•·] which will match either one. Frietjes ( talk) 22:14, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
I just found another one your script is missing here. if you would like to correct this, you can add
myContent = myContent.replace(/(\{\{)[ _]*((?:·|•|,|\*|!)(?:wrap|w|))[ _]*(\}\})/g, '$1$2$3');
near the top of your script, which will remove the leading and trailing spaces and underscores before you start other conversions. then, you don't need to worry about them later. the alternative would be to add a '[_ ]*' everywhere you match bullet delimiters. Frietjes ( talk) 17:27, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
one more thing. I added the following sanity check at the bottom of my script. it checks for possibly mangled italics or bold markup, which could have either been caused by this script, when it split multibullet spanning italics and bolds (or failed to do so), or it could have been there before the conversions. either way it's good to check them by hand:
// Error checks myContent = myContent.replace(/([\r\n](?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*\'\'(?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*)([\r\n])/gi, '$1<!-- CHECK ITALICS -->$2'); myContent = myContent.replace(/([\r\n](?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*\'\'\'(?:[^\'\r\n]|[^\'\r\n]\')*)([\r\n])/gi, '$1<!-- CHECK BOLD -->$2'); if( myContent.search(/<!-- CHECK (?:BOLD|ITALICS) -->/gi) >= 0 ) { myContent = "<!-- CHECK BOLD OR ITALICS! -->\n" + myContent; }
what it does is add a comment at the very top telling you to check for these errors, and also marks the line in the template where it found the error. I have it add the line at the top so you can immediately see it in the edit window, and know to look further down. otherwise you might miss the warning. you can see an example of what I was able to detect and correct here. Frietjes ( talk) 17:31, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject Water sports - does exist! Satu Suro 03:48, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you made some edits to some of the historical newsletters. I think that if you watch them for a couple months you can probably mark them as historical. Its doubtful anyone else will make any more (although I hope I am wrong honestly) so there's probably not a huge return on investment for cleaning up the coding on them. -- Kumioko ( talk) 17:13, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOSlinker,
Thanks for your work on
Template:Harold Budd. I've seen similar edits before but couldn't quite find out if it's protocol, so the link to
WP:Hlist is quite helpful. I'll use it on the templates I've been working on besides Budd. Cheers,
— Quibus (
talk)
19:20, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Your recent changes to Template:Uir have produced some undesired results. Over 1,000 templates invoke this template. The |info-class=nowraplinks parameter is useful for many of these templates, but causes problems for many others. Most commonly, the use of |info-class=nowraplinks may cause the WikiProject name to extend beyond the userbox width when |option=41. This may also occur for other options. Examples include:
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Andaman and Nicobar Islands. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Arunachal Pradesh. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Dadra and Nagar Haveli. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject New South Wales. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador. |
![]() | This user lives in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
![]() | This user
participates in WikiProject Prince Edward Island. |
Please check each option before adding |info-class=nowraplinks. Yours aye, Buaidh 15:54, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you please convert this template to transclude {{ Infobox}}? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
My method fixed more than 7,000 pages. Now only 5,000 pages left. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:53, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
It needs to add birth/death date/place parameters. --
Magioladitis (
talk) 19:14, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Done by me. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
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The Technical Barnstar |
Good work. Alarbus ( talk) 21:22, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
Headings should be visible only if at least one parameter is set. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:22, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Template:Infobox MLB manager has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Magioladitis (
talk)
22:26, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey there,
Thanks for contacting me when you reverted my adding an external script to Common.js. Is there a standing policy about this? I realise externally hosted scripts aren't really ideal (considering server load, all that sort of thing), but I would prefer to keep it hosted there while I'm actively developing it (which will only be for another hour or two) and then move it to a gadget when I'm done. It's only done on a single low-traffic page for development purposes. If there is indeed a general policy against external scripts, do you think I'd be able to make an exception for an hour or two?
— Andrew Garrett • talk 22:26, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
I know that under WP:OWN i do not own any of the templates that I've created, but may I ask why did you move Template:Agricultural engineer to User agricultural engineer ? and the same for the civil engineer template? Abhijay What did I do this time? 12:59, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Could you look at {{ Jct}}? An editor requested the type US-Temp be created and he went and created the subtemplates ({{ Infobox road/NJ/shield US-Temp}}, {{ Infobox road/NJ/link US-Temp}}, and {{ Infobox road/NJ/abbrev US-Temp}}) that would have been deprecated when you did your consolidation work in the last year. From what I can tell, whatever feeds {{ Jct/banner}} isn't accepting US-Temp as a type. I can't make heads or tails of the template. Thanks. – Fredddie ™ 03:34, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
{{Jct|state=NJ|US-Temp|9|dab1=Beesley's Point}}
Thanks for uploading File:Samsung Galaxy Tab.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk) 05:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOSlinker, I noticed that you do a lot of template work. I was wondering if you could help me on Tehran_Province#References: the templates Provinces of Iran and Tehran Province have some sort of bizarre overlap on that page and are a mess, but I haven't been able to fix them. If you can help, or know someone that can, that would be great. Thanks in advance. Acalamari 11:47, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
User_talk:Frietjes#More_help_needed. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:25, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Mentioned you (though not by name) here: < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33189#c1>. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 23:03, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. I attempted adding the CSS you suggested to my vector.js page (I'm using the vector skin, just to be clear!) yet I'm still seeing uppercase links... Any ideas where I went wrong? Thanks, Nik the stoned 15:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for all your good work applying hlist
. Are you using a script, and, if so, how can I do so?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
12:28, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
importScript('User:WOSlinker/hlist.js');
or copy the whole source in and then you will see a "hlist" button near the talk / edit / history buttons. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 18:13, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
'
, for emboldening or italicisation?
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
22:41, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
|above=
or |below=
include a list, apply the class to |bodyclass=
instead of |listclass=
.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
23:32, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Another thing I've done is add the following to my monobook.css page to make it more noticeable when a list has been updated. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 21:16, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
/* Make it a bit bigger and purple so that it stands out from unconverted lists */
.hlist dd:after,
.hlist dt:after,
.hlist li:after {
content: " ♦";
font-weight: bold;
color: purple;
}
Can you explain to me what you exactly have done? It is a mystery to me what is the effect on Template:County Clare, except for a smaller template. Night of the Big Wind talk 15:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
I am using the hlist script and it is awesome. I think making navboxes easier to navigate will encourage less experienced users to edit them. Thanks for doing what you do. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
Your script had to be manually assisted with this, and with this. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:37, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you. Next: instances of {{
US county navigation box}} don't get |listclass=hlist
; see
this example. No problem if you want to bunch fixes, rather than giving immediate responses.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
14:40, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Another one which give your script problems. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:22, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Also not working on {{ Muriel Spark}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:43, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
And another: {{ Top of the Pops}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
And again; I ( converted this one manually. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:58, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Also {{ SDFCS Awards Chron}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:10, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you make the script work with {{ Campaign}}, too, please? Here's a ( conversion ) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:42, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
How about comma-separated lists, like {{ Jalilabad Rayon}}? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
In similar vein; period-separated lists, like {{ Nineveh plains}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:21, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Could you make the script work with {{ Sidebar}}, please; for example: {{ Maya civilization}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:05, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Likewise {{ Navbox education in Canada}} - no rush! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:45, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
And here's anther one your script doesn't yet do: {{ Members of the European Parliament 2009–2014}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:06, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
And {{ Railway stations in Oxfordshire}}, please. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:15, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Also {{ Country history}}; failed in this edit. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:36, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Please can you look at making the script work with templates like {{ Infobox Olympics Lebanon}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:26, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
All comments welcome at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey#Accessibility. Frietjes ( talk) 22:04, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Ya, input needed here. Alarbus ( talk) 02:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Please could you update the Template:Birth date and age so that it is the same as Template:Birth date and age/sandbox? I have added the ability to sort by date of birth when the template is used in wikitable. TheBigJagielka ( talk) 12:47, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
...for cleaning up after me! :) And sorry for the mess in the first place. I'm not entirely sure why I created the test in the template namespace, and even less why I didn't remove it afterwards. Cheers, Waldir talk 21:52, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
You might find {{ Wraps infobox}} useful. It currently adds a category; we could make that switchable. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Just wishing you a wonderful First Day of Spring 2012!
Mifter (
talk)
22:54, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Can you please add medaltemplates support to all infoboxes about sportsmen or at least make v list of the infoboxes lacking it so I can add it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:07, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for updating my infobox thing,
Much Appreciated,
Kind Regards,
Can you please add medaltemplates support to all infoboxes about sportsmen or at least make v list of the infoboxes lacking it so I can add it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:07, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for updating my infobox thing,
Much Appreciated,
Kind Regards,
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
Thank you for your fix on the Ballet template. Dkreisst ( talk) 00:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC) |
Do you think you could kindly help with this request, to add tracking categories to {{ Geobox}}, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:15, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I've removed geobox tracking by reverting to before your recent edits as it was resulting in a non-functional category message at the article top, for example [[Category:Geobox usage tracking for other type|PHYSIOGRAPHIC PROVINCE Wyoming Basin]] was showing as the top line at Wyoming Basin and similar on other pages. Rather than messing with the code I simply went back to a clean version. Please fix it if it is to be used. Vsmith ( talk) 20:05, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
These have been very useful; thank you again. Could I now trouble you to take a look at Template_talk:Geobox#Mountains, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:17, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
{{ Byzantine Empire topics}} has a separator that's not recognised by your script Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Updating Template:Infobox Dalai Lama to use {{ Infobox}} should be easy now. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:18, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Database reports/Unbelievable life spans is hot off the press and you've already corrected many of the entries. Nice work. :-) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 18:40, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Do you think you could replace the instances of Template:Infobox AFLretired with Template:Infobox AFL player or Template:Infobox AFL biography? Any of the two would be fine. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:05, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Infobox AFLretired needs to be updated to support birth_place and death_place and seperate the parameters in the infoboxes and remove Color and fontcolor from them too. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:27, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I think I partially did it but someone needs to check and finish the job. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 19:57, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Moreover, height needs to be merged in a single parameter. This is the first step before we separate height and weight parameters in the remaining infoboxes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
stat1label needs to change to statlabel1 and stat1value needs to change to statvalue1 to fit all other infoboxes that use the same method. The same for other numbers. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
|
is used as the separator. Not a huge deal, because I just run a search and replace on navboxes that use this, but it would make things easier if the script was able to treat |
the same way it treats, say, {{
!}}. Cheers,
Jenks24 (
talk)
21:55, 24 April 2012 (UTC)Some instances of the infobox still use ImageWidth instead of image_size. Can you please fix them for me? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:03, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Could you explain your last edit to {{ Infobox mountain}}?11:28, 8 May 2012 (UTC) – droll [chat] 17:17, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Not quite sure how this happened but {{ infobox mountain}} seems to be malfunctioning with regards to the location map.
It should display the relief map by default (normally the alt map), falling back to the default when not available or specifically requested. However, that behaviour seems to have been reversed recently. Can't see any reason for that on the talk page and documentation seems to support this as an error.
As you are most recent editor (and know your way round these templates) could you have a look?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 23:10, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
you should be able to get this to work, but I think you need to add the "!important" keyword to override the default. so, instead of
text-align: inherit;
use say
text-align: inherit !important;
but I could be wrong since I can't really test it (or maybe I could try it in my own personal css file). Frietjes ( talk) 22:36, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
/* lists in data cells are always left-aligned unless they also use the hlist class */ .wikitable.hlist td ul, .wikitable.hlist td ol, .wikitable.hlist td dl { text-align: inherit !important; }
Hi, Although I'm on a wikibreak I noticed you had made the infobox show on Montacute House. You might want to take a look at the talk page where this was discussed at great length & the collapsed infobox used as a compromise. Some of the major editors of this article might object to your action - although I'm all in favour - as you can see from the discussion.— Rod talk 19:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Hello.
You recently removed template nowrap from a few navboxes that I've created. Actually, nowrap is needed here, otherwise there will be linebreaks at undesired places (in the middle of an entity). I've seen it myself.
So if you don't mind, I'll revert this on "my" templates.
Regards
HandsomeFella ( talk) 09:43, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
.navbox .hlist dd,
.navbox .hlist dt,
.navbox .hlist li {
white-space: nowrap; /* Nowrap list items in navboxes */
white-space: normal !ie; /* IE < 8 no-wraps entire list, so disable it */
}
Could you look at {{
Jctint/conversion}}
? It works just great, but I discovered on
U.S. Route 161#Major intersections that inputting 10 miles will convert to 20 km instead of 16 km. I had admin put in what I thought would fix the issue, but I discovered that over 100 miles, the km column was rounding to the nearest 10 km. Thanks. –
Fredddie
™
03:06, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:DRV#Template:Membership. Frietjes ( talk) 00:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Could you please link me the discussion where the community decided that "placeholder image" is forbidden? See this Category:Infobox person using placeholder image. In far far 2008, this discussion, the decision to delete don't reached consensus. -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 06:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! May I ask your opinion whether a parameter for "personal best/s" will be also suitable at the T:infobox swimmer? See T:infobox athlete as an example. Cheers. CeeGee ( talk) 14:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOS. Template:Userspace draft calls Template:New unreviewed article which calls Template:Ambox and I am trying to get the substitution detection working by passing subst through. It's not working as I hoped - can you take a look? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 06:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi WOSlinker, I see from Special:Contributions/WOSlinker that you've made thousands of edits, single-handedly converting all the Navigational boxes without horizontal lists to use the hlist class. Are you doing this manually? Shouldn't there be some way to write a bot or at least use AWB to help with the job? Set theorist ( talk) 09:53, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the improvements to the Balanchine ballets template. — Robert Greer ( talk) 21:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for working on the language categories. But please don't add zero level categories. There is long standing previous consensus to not have zero level language categories. (You're not the only one - I've heard that there is a bot somewhere automatically creating them too.) - jc37 17:03, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
Ok, quick question. When we added the "extra" parameter, {{ jct/extra}} was created to handle which graphic was displayed between airports, etc. I just added a switch so that if the country=AUS, then the airport graphic is switched to one with a blue background. Can you add whatever we need to pass the country through to that subtemplate so that the switch works? Thanks! Imzadi 1979 → 07:25, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for adding a category to {{ User 1ofActive}}, you prompted me to put it in its proper category Category:Edit user templates. For future reference, Category:Userboxes should contain only subcategories, userboxes should be put in a specific subcategory or Category:Unsorted userboxes. ··gracefool ☺ 16:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
for your great work in creating and managing templates ► robomod 10:42, 24 June 2012 (UTC) |
The Template:Hide if placeholder image (bravo!) doesn't seem to work in Template:Infobox person for the article Narges Mohammadi. I can't understand why not. Do you? -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 13:48, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
In short, we could use someone who understands how jct works well enough to make a sibling template, {{ jctname}} or similar. The idea would be that it would work substantially the same with a twist in the output, and hopefully use all of the subtemplates and back end that's in place.
Instead of getting:
AK-9 (
Seward Highway) –
Anchorage
we'd get:
Seward Highway (
AK-9) –
Anchorage
Basically, it would put the priority on the names over the numbers, usable for places like Alaska or Australia where the names have the priority, and any numbers are secondary. There's a discussion about it over at
Template talk:Jct#Coding Jct to allow "name (route)", but it's an outgrowth of additional discussions at
WT:RJL and the Western Australia WikiProject.
Imzadi 1979
→
07:33, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
See ny proposal to make this category Category:English List A limited-overs cricketers into a list, as a more appropriate format. Hugo999 ( talk) 02:31, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Template:State highways in Washington related to I-82 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
Imzadi 1979
→
06:53, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. When I set up the template I had an idea I might be doing something wrong, but wasn't sure what it was Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:34, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. There is a try to revive WikiProject Infoboxes by doing some tasks. One of these is to support bare filenames in all infoboxes. Can you help on that? You are invited to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes with ideas, suggestions and ofcourse your edits :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 03:23, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Maybe you are interested in helping us with Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Infoboxes#Task:_Start_cleaning_pages_that_have_New_infobox_in_their_talk_page. There are some wikitables taht need to be converted in Infoboxes. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 21:59, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for editing the coding. Now I can much more easily read it and update as necessary :) ₪Rickn Asia₪ 14:58, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for your helpful response at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) to correct formatting errors that were occurring with Template:Deletion sorting. The template is working correctly at this time! Northamerica1000 (talk) 06:51, 6 August 2012 (UTC) |
I think using includeonly inside noinclude in Template:Paris Métro Line 12 is wrong. Can you please check and fix? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 18:43, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Infoboxes#Task:_URL_parameter_standardisation? We could for instance start with Infoboxes about persons. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:50, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
seems not very controversial, but I posted a thread for adding hlist to Infobox music genre. Frietjes ( talk) 20:40, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
.navbox .hlist dd,
.navbox .hlist dt,
.navbox .hlist li {
white-space: nowrap; /* Nowrap list items in navboxes */
white-space: normal !ie; /* IE < 8 no-wraps entire list, so disable it */
}
.navbox .hlist dd dl,
.navbox .hlist dt dl,
.navbox .hlist li ol,
.navbox .hlist li ul {
white-space: normal; /* But allow parent list items to be wrapped */
}
Thisistheheader |
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Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Infoboxes#Chnage_Infobox_University_to_support_bare_filenames_for_images. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 12:29, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Some pages of {{
Infobox gridiron football person}} still use the old ImageWidth parameter. It should be renamed to image_size. |Color=
and |fontcolor=
should be removed. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
12:31, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Template talk:WikiProject United States#Error in template-- Traveler100 ( talk) 05:13, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Category:Heroes task force, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. WrestleMania XXVIII The Undertaker 20–0 06:47, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:Citation needed cheap has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --
Beland (
talk)
14:48, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
I asked a question at User_talk:Magioladitis#priority parameter. Also, could you explain the ifeq statement? I've never seen one like that before. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:02, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, please can you explain why you created {{ Flatlist/microformat}}? Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Can you please add birth_date and death_date support in addition to the existing ones? Nobody disagreed in the talk page. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:45, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Updates_to_.7B.7BInfobox_automobile.7D.7D_et_al.. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:31, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
I also removed historical parameters: similar, parent_company, fuel_capacity, fuel_economy, electric_range. There may be some leftovers due to unbalanced brackets. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:03, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
If you have any handy tool to convert filenames please use it or tell me how to use it. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 00:08, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I created User:Yobot/Automobile but it needs adjustments. Any corrections accepted. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 09:16, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Main problem: We need to find in |image=
values of the form [[file:example.jpg]]caption here and move the caption to the |caption=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
17:15, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
We also need a tracking category or a list for pages with two Files in |image=
. --
Magioladitis (
talk)
17:50, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
If we have more infoboxes where we can convert them to bare filenames, I have a script now with which I can do the job. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 17:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
I tried adding the above flag that checks for the presence of the KML page. It displays fine, but when a KML page is added, it does not refresh the category; a null edit is required to fix it. Do you have any ideas as to why that is? -- Rs chen 7754 00:07, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I seemingly cannot shake the habit of using brackets in if … then … end
. You seemingly cannot shake the habit of semicolons at the ends of statements. ☺
Uncle G (
talk)
13:53, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
I am interested of why you made this change? The default color has been always present, but was lost during the recent conversion to the meta-template. It was not a new addition. I only fixed an error. Ruslik_ Zero 10:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I have done some major refactoring of Module:Convert to implement my plan to create the required data table from a master list. I have put the resulting data into the module, and the source list is here. If we agree on that procedure, it will be important that updates to the conversion data occur in the master list only—data in the module should not be changed except by copying the results of processing the master list.
I am working on a list I have created by copying all data from Template:Convert/list of units (and each of the "full list" pages that it links to). I hope to update my master list with nearly all the conversion data in a few days, but several details will have to be determined before it is complete (for one thing, the power units are not documented). Johnuniq ( talk) 11:51, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Template:Football in El Salvador and similar. I created Template:Football in Costa Rica/doc. Please check for mistakes and if possible fix more of them. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:10, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, please could explain why you have changed {{Navbox subgroups
to {{Navbox|child
at
Template:India topics. The
Navbox documentation recommends using {{Navbox subgroup}}
so I was wondering whether there is a reason for doing it like this?
Lmatt (
talk)
02:48, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
There are a talk pages not showing up in Category:Biography articles with blank priority parameter
Some examples are: Talk:Alain Junior Ollé Ollé, Talk:Albert Duro, Talk:Barrie Vagg and Talk:Billy Payne (footballer). The last two have been since correct.
What is weird is that at the bottom of the talk pages, it does say they are part of the category. Can you think of what is going on? Bgwhite ( talk) 08:35, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I have noticed some unexpected results from {{
convert}}. It often puts
between the output value and unit, but not between the input value and its unit. Also, for temperature, it uses custom nowrap html (in addition to nbsp for the output). The following shows two examples; the first line is the template, and the second is the resulting wikitext.
{{convert|10|mi|km}} 10 miles (16 km) {{convert|0|C|F}} <span style="white-space:nowrap;">0 °C</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">(32 °F)</span>
Can you think of a reason why the span element would be used? I'm thinking that Module:Convert should use nbsp for both the input and output units, and should not use span. Unfortunately that would break our testing because the module results would differ from the expected. I suppose I could start by trying to reproduce exactly what the template does, and remove the unnecessary span later? Ugly.
I think we should have an enwiki talk page to (occasionally) raise issues like this—preferably dedicated to convert as it is sufficiently complex. A talk page on test2 would be ok, but it would be one more page that probably should be imported to enwiki later (I'm thinking that some history of discussions might be useful). On such a page I would speculate about how a transition from template to module might occur (with difficulty!). Would such a talk page be useful? Where? Johnuniq ( talk) 03:49, 20 September 2012 (UTC)