Template talk:Year in country category

Malfunction

On Category:1687 in Siam, it seems to be categorising it to Category:1687 in. Any idea why? ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:28, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Pinging most recent contributor @BrownHairedGirl. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:29, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: because it was missing a parameter. Now fixed.[1]

A quick peek at a similar category such as Category:1687 in Siam would have shown the difference. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:34, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl Could an error/maintenance category be shown, instead of categorising incorrectly? ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:37, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

@Qwerfjkl: Possibly. But I have in mind a major rewrite of the template, which won't be able to get around to for another few months, and until then I don't want to dive into the old code.

Meanwhile, editors can try RTFMing, at Template:Year in country category#Parameters. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:22, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl: I found no documentation for newname parameters, and added some, with an example (Category:1771 in Thailand) where these are now in use. – Fayenatic London 09:09, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Some ideas for future improvements

Some ideas for future improvements:

1. Use Wikidata to get the manually entered values:
   1. Use continent (P30), which also has multiple values for countries that span continents (see Turkey (Q43)).
   2. Use country (P17), which also has multiple values with start and end dates if wanted (see Wales (Q25)).
2. Use regex to extract the country name from the category title, just like the year is extracted.

These changes would basically mean that the template could be use as {{Year in country category}} without any parameters. Gonnym (talk) 12:43, 18 April 2022 (UTC)