Template talk:Class/colour

Proposed move

I propose that this template be moved to Template:Class/col, for the following reasons:

• "Classcol" is quite confusing not very descriptive.
• Although it is not currently used exclusively by Template:Class, it will when all the banners have been updated and the old-style templates (e.g. {{a-class}}) have been deprecated.

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:39, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

We should take the opportunity to strike a blow for real English further clarify the use of the template (:D) by moving it to Template:Class/colour instead. Happy‑melon 23:15, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Ooh, controversial! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:28, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

 moved and redirects updated. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:53, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Audio-Class

I see WP:Louisville are now using "Audio-Class", for which no colour is defined here. Since this is effectively a(nother) sub class of "File-Class", I propose it be assigned the same colour (#ddccff). Any objections? PC78 (talk) 11:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

This was suggested in the original discussion but I pointed out that the project is also using Image-class and so a different colour would probably be preferable. Also I don't see any harm in leaving it colourless until we get a request from the project. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:16, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

As an aside, I've updated {{Articles by Quality}} to allow for custom classes, so now Audio is shown on Category:Louisville articles by quality. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:53, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Nice! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:34, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Well, I see WOSlinker made the same suggestion as I in that discussion. ;) I don't see any inherant problem in using the same colour in this case, nor do I think it would be inappropriate to do so without a request from the project. They would, of course, be free to request a change at a later date, but it's perhaps reasonable to assume that they aren't that bothered one way or another. I don't think it should be left colourless, though. PC78 (talk) 10:54, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I would have no objections to using the same colour for Audio as Image & File. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Well seems a bit pointless to me, but I suppose I don't object either. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:41, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done I've added audio. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:39, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 16 January 2016

Some wikiprojects are using "SIA" as an assessment class for "set index articles" with its own category (e.g. Category:SIA-Class Spiders articles). (Other wikiprojects, like WP:PLANTS, use |class=sia but alias this to "List-Class" at present, but could separate out SIAs in future.) Please add:

| sia          = #ccaaff

to the template to produce a similar, but lighter, colour to that for List-Class. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:25, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 10:38, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

SL-Class

Just a thought, but SL-Class (currently used only by WP:PLANTS) is equivalent to both Stub and Start Class. It might therefore be more logical for SL-Class to use a blend of those two colours, i.e.  #FF8866 , rather than the same colour as Stub-Class. PC78 (talk) 23:24, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Proposed change to Current-Class and User-Class

I'd like to propose making the following colour changes for Current-Class and User-Class:

	Current	Proposed
Current-Class	#d462ff	#d870ff
User-Class	#999900	#b5b546

It's only a subtle change, the new colours are similar to those we use now but are slightly more muted and more in keeping with the overall scheme. Any objections? PC78 (talk) 23:54, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

No objections raised to the above proposal, please update this sub-template with the code at {{class/colour/sandbox}}. Testcases, if need be, at {{class/colour/testcases}}, though it's a simple enough change. PC78 (talk) 00:01, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

 Done — xaosflux ^Talk 02:12, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 4 June 2018

{{WikiProject Portals}} uses FPo-Class for Featured Portals, but the class in the banner has a transparent background (example: Portal talk:Africa) instead of the   #6699ff colour that the other featured classes use.

Please add the line

 | fpo          = #6699ff

as per this edit to the sandbox (see testcases). - Evad37 [talk] 01:12, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:40, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Bplus has merged to B

Replace Template:Class/colour with Template:Class/colour/sandbox. This merges Bplus/B+ to B, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 June 30#Bplus-Class articles. Has been tested, at Template:Class/colour/testcases.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:37, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Why are my suggestions being discarded? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

 Not done pending discussion above. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:52, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 5 September 2018

Please update with the version currently in the sandbox. This implements:

• the changes made by Redrose64, to make it obvious which classes are using the same colour
• the changes made by SMcCandlish to merge B+ to B-class, per the above edit request
• new classes that WikiProject Portals has adopted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals/Assessment

- Evad37 [talk] 03:10, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

I believe the first and second points above are uncontroversial. I am a little unsure about the third because we are adding a lot of new custom classes which will be only used by one project. I also cannot see any recent discussion about this on the project's talk page. Please can you point me towards any relevant discussions? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:01, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

@MSGJ: The original (very long) thread can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals/Archive 6 § Proposed new quality class assessments. The final agreed-upon classes are at the bottom of the page. — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 11:13, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

@MSGJ: There's already several classes which are only used by one or only a few projects, such as SL, Merge, and to a lesser extent CL (several task forces, but MILHIST is the only project there). What's the harm of having a few more, especially as they only show up in project banners etc when a custom class mask which has those classes specified is used? - Evad37 [talk] 14:40, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Okay I accept your points. It would be more ideal if these colours could be set locally, but there is currently no way to do this.  Added — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:52, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Color scheme doesn't meet accessibility requirements

Currently, the "Featured", "Stub", "List", "Current", "Future", "SIA", "SL", "Draft", and "Portal" levels violate the accessibility requirements of WP:COLOR when standard blue link text is used in the foreground. I am proposing changing the template to the follow values, which meet the WCAG 2.0 AA requirements for normal-sized text and the AAA requirements for large text:

Old Output	Old Colour	New Output	New Colour
#6699ff	Featured	#9CBDFF	Featured
#ff6666	Stub	#FFA4A4	Stub
#aa88ff	List	#C7B1FF	List
#d870ff	Current	#E6A4FF	Current
#8a95ff	Future	#B4BBFF	Future
#ccaaff	SIA	#E9DAFF	SIA
#ff6666	SL	#FFA4A4	SL
#d98159	Draft	#E7B198	Draft
#cc8899	Portal	#DDB1BC	Portal

--Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:11, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Definitely better, even for those whose only problem is advancing age! Peter coxhead (talk) 16:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 20 September 2018

Please synchronize the main template with the current sandbox version to update the colors per #Color scheme doesn't meet accessibility requirements. That discussion has been open for 7 days without objection. Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:11, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Definitely an improvement, except the new versions of SL and Stub are hard to read (Current, too, but not quite a bad). There's insufficient luminosity and contrast difference between the letters and the background (whether AAA says so or not).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:59, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Further colour changes required

In reference to the above discussion from last year, I note that the colours presently used for Deferred-Class and User-Class also fail the same accessibility requirements. I would therefore like to suggest that we change these to the following values to bring them in line with the rest:

Old Output	Old Colour	New Output	New Colour
#999999	Deferred	#D1BCAC	Deferred
#b5b546	User	#DDD06A	User

As per above, the new colours meet the WCAG 2.0 AA requirements for normal-sized text and the AAA requirements for large text. PC78 (talk) 15:13, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Please update this subtemplate with the sandboxed code at Template:Class/colour/sandbox. The following changes are made:

• Colours for Deferred-Class and User-Class changed per above.
• Added common synonyms that are used in {{Class mask}}, i.e. "disamb" for Disambig, "redir" for Redirect, "tpl" for Template, etc.
• Code tidied and caps used for all hex triplets (for the sake of consistency).

Should it be necessary, sandboxed code is tested at Template:Class/colour/testcases and Template:Class/colour/doc/sandbox. PC78 (talk) 17:52, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

 Done @PC78: this has been synced in, please update the primary documentation as needed. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:16, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 11 December 2019

Please add:

 | help                                  = #FFA4EB

To this code. I've tested it at the sandbox. It is for WikiProject Wikisource which I plan on restarting. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:28, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

 Done there were a couple of other changes in the sandbox which I have not synchronised — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 02:23, 16 December 2019 (UTC)