User:Jonesey95/Tools

I use this page as a parking lot for templates that I need to remember how to use.

Display a given page in a specific skin

e.g. Vector, Timeless, Monobook

?useskin=vector-2022

?useskin=vector

?useskin=timeless

?safemode=1

?dtenable=1  (enable beta Discussion Tools)

?useparsoid=1 (use Parsoid to render) 

?useparsoid=0 (force old renderer)

?vectornightmode=1  (force night mode in Vector, scheduled to work in May 2024)

?minervanightmode=1&useskin=minerva  (force night mode)

Report Parsoid problems at mw:Parsoid/Parser Unification/Known Issues.

Null edit all articles with a given template?

To be used sparingly, but it might be useful for templates that do not have a ton of usage: if you want to speed up the filling process, (1) install "User:Frietjes/masspurge.js" (done in vector.js) and (2) go to Special:MassPurge and (3) put "Template:Infobox royalty" (or the template you want to purge) in the top box and (4) press the top purge button. if it works, the bottom box will fill up with the list of all the transclusions and it will start purging each one.

You can also paste a list of articles in the bottom box instead of putting a template in the top box.

This works will purge one article every four or five seconds.

Categories to watch

Links to my AutoEd scripts

Category search tools

Quick Category Intersection Search

Catscan - advanced multi-category search tool

Show top 250 articles in a category by number of incoming links (paste cat name)

Backlog checklist

Backlog status (Purge)
Category	Current status
CS1 errors: arXiv‎	Done
CS1 errors: ASIN	Done
CS1 errors: bibcode‎	Done
CS1 errors: coauthors without author	Done
CS1 errors: DOI	Not done
CS1 errors: invalid parameter value	Not done
CS1 errors: ISBN‎‎	Not done
CS1 errors: ISSN‎‎	Not done
CS1 errors: LCCN‎	Done
CS1 errors: OCLC	Done
CS1 errors: OL	Done
CS1 errors: parameter link‎	Not done
CS1 errors: PMC‎	Done
CS1 errors: PMID‎	Done
CS1 errors: translated title‎‎	Done
Pages with empty citations‎	Done
Pages with citations having redundant parameters‎	Done
Pages with citations using unnamed parameters‎	Done
Pages with citations using unsupported parameters‎	Done
URL–wikilink conflict	Done

GOCE Coordinator Tasks

Daily/Monthly/As Needed GOCE Coordinator tasks

Typing a pipe character

To type a pipe character within a template or elsewhere, use this template: {{!}}

See Help:Template#Pipe.

GOCE notice for Talk page

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The syntax for the article's Talk page template is:

{{GOCE |user={{subst:REVISIONUSER}} |date={{subst:date}} |small= }}

It looks like this:

Guild of Copy Editors

This article was copy edited by Jonesey95, a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, on April 12, 2013.Guild of Copy EditorsWikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsTemplate:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsGuild of Copy Editors articles

The syntax for the requester's Talk page template is:

{{GOCEtb
| article = foobar
| sign = message here. ~~~~
}}

It looks like this:

Hello, Jonesey95. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for foobar at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! message here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:41, 16 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Template:Clarify

{{Clarify}} Looks like this:^{[clarification needed]}

Template:Dead link

Use {{Dead link}} or {{dl}} when you find a dead link to a website within a paragraph or a reference citation. Doing so will place a note by the URL and add the article to one of the Category:Articles with dead external links categories.

Append this template directly after the link or template, leaving the original link intact. Not doing so will prevent detection from automated tools. If the citation contains multiple URLs (e.g. chapterurl and url) in a template, and only one is broken, you can use  to explain which one is broken.

If the article uses clickable footnotes, then this tag should be placed just before the </ref> that contains the dead link. The notice will then correctly appear in the reference section (instead of in the body of the text, which is not recommended).

Template:Convert

Examples of the Convert template:

{{convert|32|F|C}} results in 32 °F (0 °C)
{{convert|32|ft|m}} results in 32 feet (9.8 m)
{{convert|32|PD/sqmi|PD/sqkm}} results in 32 inhabitants per square mile (12/km²)
{{convert|60|and|170|kg|lb}} results in 60 and 170 kilograms (130 and 370 lb)

WP:MOS shortcuts

WP:DASH

Template:Multiple issues

The syntax for the template is:

{{Multiple issues|
{{Issue 1}}
{{Issue 2}}
{{Issue 3}}
...
}}

WP:Template_messages/Cleanup

List of Cleanup messages.

WP:COATRACK

The syntax for the template is:

{{coat rack}}

References need expanding or improvement

The syntax for the template is:

{{refimprove}} or {{refimprove section}}

WP:HAT

Hatnotes, including For the main article... and This page is about...

How to make a redirect

To create a basic redirect manually, set #REDIRECT[[target page name here]] as the only body text of the page. For instance, if you were redirecting from "UK" to "United Kingdom", this would be the entire body of the "UK" page:

#REDIRECT [[United Kingdom]]

Template:Reflist

How to create a nice-looking list of references. A good multi-column list is

{{reflist|30em}}

(using |2 is deprecated).

WP:DE-ORPHAN

Edit summary to use when you de-orphan an article: Successfully de-orphaned! Wikiproject Orphanage: [[WP:ORPHAN|You can help!]]

Needs more Wookieelink

I can't believe that searching for Wookieelink in Wikipedia shows zero results.

How to exclude an article from Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax

To exclude a Template documentation article from a subcategory of Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax because it is a demonstration of how a template can generate an error, insert

|no-tracking=yes

into the citation.

If it's a custom cite template, the following needs to be included in the template code, in the {{cite web}} (or other cite template) code:

|no-tracking={{{no-tracking|}}}

After the above is added, the template documentation may need a null edit, after which the template needs one more null edit for it to be removed from the error category (or you can wait for the job queue to get around to it, if you're the patient type).

Edit summary search

Link to Edit summary search

How to see CITEREF

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Trying two things.

One author with displayauthors

{{citation |displayauthors=1 |last1=one |year=2001 |title=Title}}

one (2001), Title {{citation}}: Invalid |display-authors=1 (help) generates CITEREFone2001

One author with last2=et al.

{{citation |last1=one |last2=''et al.'' |year=2001 |title=Title}}

one; et al. (2001), Title {{citation}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |last2= (help) generates CITEREFoneet_al.2001

– Jonesey95 (talk) 18:53, 20 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

You can determine a CITEREF by viewing the page source; search for

<span id="CITEREF

and it goes from there to the next double quote. Alternatively, fill in the parameters of {{harvid}} and sandbox it:

{{harvid|one|2001}} → CITEREFone2001

{{harvid|one|et al.|2001}} → CITEREFoneet_al.2001

I've filled them in above. One reason not to use et al. but instead supply all the authors and set |displayauthors= is so that all of them get added to the COinS metadata. -- Redrose64

To generate a custom CITEREF, add ref={{harvid|Custom Name}} to the end of the citation.

Protection levels

Protection levels for WP articles: Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Comparison_table

Interlanguage links

Make an in-line link to an article in another Wikipedia like this:

[[:fr:Joseph_de_Carayon-Latour|Joseph de Carayon La Tour]]

It looks like Joseph de Carayon La Tour.

To link to Commons, do this: [[:commons:User:Example|Example]]

Use {{ill}}, {{ill2}}, or {{ill-WD}} to show both a redlink and an interlanguage link (ill and ill-WD will both hide the interlanguage link should the redlink turn blue). {{ill}} is used like this:

{{ill|Sigmund Jakobsen|no}} → Sigmund Jakobsen [no]

{{ill|Charles Darwin (botanist)|lt=Darwin|fr|Charles Darwin|de|Charles Darwin|es|Charles Darwin}} produces: Darwin [fr; de; es]

A simple example:

Sheladize [ku]

A slightly more complex example:

Fall of Pajajaran [id]

Citation Bot development version

PMC to PMID to DOI converter

To check if a given article has a DOI, PMC, or PMID, enter one of the identifiers at the PMID converter web page.

Compare two pages

compare two pages (diff)

Coloring text

What you type	What it looks like
`I will change the color in {{color\|blue\|the middle part of}} this sentence.`	I will change the color in the middle part of this sentence.

Show all pages with a given prefix

Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Cite_wdl

Show citation text and rendering

**Cite journal**
Markup	Renders as
{{cite journal\|author=Author\|title=Title\|journal=Journal name\|pages=56-62}}	Author. "Title". Journal Name: 56–62. `{{cite journal}}`: `\|author=` has generic name (help)

**Cite book**
Markup	Renders as
{{cite book\|author=Author\|chapter=Chapter name\|title=Book Title\|pages=56-62}}	Author. "Chapter name". Book Title. pp. 56–62. `{{cite book}}`: `\|author=` has generic name (help)

Purge CS1 citations

Run Citation Bot against a category

Click this for the et al authors category

Click this for the missing authors category

Click this for the Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls category

Links to RFCs referenced frequently

Is YYYY-MM an acceptable date format? (Feb–Apr 2014)

Hiding date errors (Sep–Oct 2013)

Cite doi templates (Sep 2014)

Hyphenated citation parameters (Jul 2014)

Medical articles: replace cite doi and cite pmid with cite journal and a previous discussion of a similar topic (Jan 2015, Mar 2014)

Month abbreviations (Jan 2014)

Excluding namespaces from CS1 error categories (Sep 2013)

Small caps only when it changes the meaning (May 2015)

Deprecation of Cite doi templates (Sep 2015)

Deprecation of Cite PMID templates (Oct 2015)

Religion in infoboxes (Apr 2016)

residence parameter in infobox person (December 2019)

home_town/hometown parameter in infobox person and related person infoboxes (August 2020)

Ethnicity in infoboxes (April 2016)

Four-digit years at the end of year ranges (July 2016)

Coordinates in infoboxes (Aug 2016) (see also Wikipedia:Coordinates in infoboxes, the mini-project page)

Future of magic links (ISBN, RFC, PMID) (Feb 2017)

This March 2017 (English Wikipedia) RfC determined that these magic links on the English Wikipedia should be replaced by the {{ISBN}}, {{PMID}}, and {{IETF RFC}} templates.

Templates should have English parameters (not an RFC, not officially closed) (Feb 2017)

Pulling short descriptions from Wikidata (February 2018)

No small font sizes in infoboxes (April 2018)

Move DYKs out of Template space (April 2018)

Deprecation of inline parenthetical referencing (within prose, outside of ref tags) (Sep 2020)

Wikipedia:Wikidata/2018_Infobox_RfC#Discussion (June 2018) – most recent RFC on wikidata in infoboxes

Wikipedia_talk:External_links/Archive_40#RFC_on_how_to_format_external_links (Sep 2020) – do not use cite templates in the External links section

Native name discussions:

Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_163#Template:Infobox_person:_proposal_-_Let's_not_insult_the_natives_(BLP) (November 2019)
Template_talk:Infobox_person/Archive_34#Let's_not_insult_the_natives_(BLP) (December 2019)

Large decorative quote marks in article space (March 2020) (cquote template)

RFC on unhyphenated parameters (April 2021, first close, later overturned)

Second close of unhyphenated parameter RFC (April 2021, last six unhyphenated parameters remain supported)

Template:BibISBN TFD; Cite ISBN TFD with link to deleted discussion about deleting all Cite ISBN templates. Example TFD for an ISBN XXX template

Catscan searches

Templates with duplicate arguments/parameters

Template test cases and sandbox templates

{{Template test cases notice}} at the top for test cases
{{Template sandbox notice}} for sandboxes

Foreign-language citation templates to change to auto-substitution

See the See Also section at {{Cytuj stronę}}.

Most of these are done. Add templates with over 100 transclusions to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force.

Help:Magic words

Help:Magic_words#Parser_functions for ifeq, ifexpr, switch, urlencode, CURRENTMONTH, formatting commands, and other magic words and parser functions.

Template for articles needing further translation

Templates I have edited (with useful code snippets)

{{Age in years}}
{{Birth date and age}}
{{Birth date}}
{{Birth year and age}}
{{Death date and age}}
{{Death year and age}} (not modified yet as of May 2015)
{{GOCE award}}
{{GOCE-new-blitz-page}}
{{GOCE-new-drive-page}}
{{ISBNT}} (ISBN check)
{{Graphic novel list}} (ISBN check)
{{Book list}} (ISBN check)
{{Infobox comics story arc}} (ISBN check)
{{Infobox comic book title}} (ISBN check)
{{Infobox comics team and title}} (ISBN check)
{{Infobox artist discography}} (unknown parameter check)

Templates to edit

Add parameter validation to these templates

{{Birth date and age2}}
{{Death date}} - also check for pre-1583 years
{{End date}}
{{Start date and age}}
{{Start date}} - also check for pre-1583 years
Done {{BillboardID}} - check for "illegal name" (see Talk)
Done {{New International Encyclopedia}} - categorize missing title error
{{Cite court}} - see Talk
{{Albumchart}} et al. additional checks for missing parameters, e.g. artist parameter where required or other conditions that generate red error messages. See Talk.
Done {{BillboardChartNum}} - added tracking cat for invalid chart name
Done Category:Certification Table Entry usages for unsupported region
{{Infobox album}} with unsupported type
{{singlechart}} and {{albumchart}} categorize errors, e.g. El Perdón and:

Chart (1989–90)	Peak position
ERROR: MUST PROVIDE DATE FOR POLISH CHART^[1]	1
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[2]	5

References

^ "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Airplay Top 100.
^ "Spanishcharts.com – R5 – {{{album}}}". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 17, 2015.

{{Cite rowlett}} - Fix error cat to not create a URL-wikilink error: Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Norway: Vadsø Area". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 24, 2016.

Notability guideline for lists of alumni

WP:NLIST is the notability guideline for lists of alumni and similar lists. A quote: "For instance, articles about schools often include (or link to) a list of notable alumni/alumnae, but such lists are not intended to contain everyone who attended the school — only those with verifiable notability."

Generate Cite journal template from DOI

Tool to generate Cite journal template from a DOI

Subst a cite doi or cite jstor reference

can be substituted using:

{{safesubst:#tag:ref|{{subst:cite doi/10.2307.2F1514012}}}}

Italicize part of an article title

{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of ''The Kingdom Keepers'' characters}} at the top of the article

How to send a mass message

On the Special page you just need to enter the mailing-list page, a header and the wikitext of the message itself. Add four tildes to the end of the message and you're good to go.

December 2020 [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors|Guild of Copy Editors]] Newsletter

Unicode character analysis

https://r12a.github.io/app-conversion/

Regex for "any character until a given character"

str = str.replace(/{{\s*[cC]ite doi\|10\.2307\/(.+?(?=[\}]))/gi, '{{Cite journal|jstor=$1');
str = str.replace(/{{\s*[cC]ite doi\|(10\.\d+\/.+?(?=[\}]))/gi, '{{Cite journal|doi=$1');
str = str.replace(/{{\s*[cC]ite pmid\|(\d+?(?=[\}]))/gi, '{{Cite journal|pmid=$1');

Strip URL from external link:  \[http.+?(?= )(.+?(?=\]))\] (replace with $1)

Regex testing

Permanent link to a section of a page using the page history oldid

How to show a rendered citation, including categories

Use {{Code}}.

Interwiki links

Links to different projects and Wikipedias, and to external sites with special prefixes.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking#Prefixes

meta:Special:Interwiki

Job queue takes 90+ days

Discussion of the job queue from July 2014.

Redlinked templates (wanted templates)

Special:WantedTemplates

Project for ambitious WP programmer (or student)

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Make a universal age template that handles births, deaths, and ages gracefully, even when some pieces are unknown. The current mishmash of templates is a giant mess. The first step would be reading the documentation and talk pages for the existing templates to create a spec for what a universal template could do. It would probably have to be written in Lua. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:13, 31 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Regular expression reference

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression

Copyright violation detector

https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/

Central banner notices

Central banner notices are at m:CentralNotice/Request.

Phabricator bug tracking

T106685: insource searches do not work properly (Marked as Resolved because they display a timeout warning now. Not fixed.)
T157152: Citoid adding extra "PMC" (Declined as not a bug, worked around in CS1)
T10761: false positives in template transclusion reports due to faulty js file parsing
T32758: exclude some namespaces from Special:WantedTemplates
T132467: categorization takes days or months when templates or modules change
T157670: categorization takes months or forever when MediaWiki code changes
T160269: serif font for lead section "edit" link (Fixed)
T133874: VisualEditor rearranges template parameters (Declined as not a bug)
~~T161581~~ T162291: Visual Editor wraps ISBNs in nowiki tags
T10681: Group watchlist changes across days
T132308: Citoid is not yet even minimally intelligent about the citation dates it inserts.
T174303: Citoid insert Special:BookSources link when ISBN is added
T18036: Number of category members (PAGESINCATEGORY) is inaccurate for large categories
T140606: Signatures are not checked for Linter errors (deployed mid-2020; includes flag for obsolete tags, not yet activated, waiting for consensus discussion here on en.WP) (talk page thread)
~~T215999~~: Linter does not detect invalid "500px500px" as a bogus file option (Fixed, but the fix caused T276675, Linter false positive: image caption ending in "px" is incorrectly detected as a Linter error)
T216003: Linter fails to detect multiple "upright" parameters as a Bogus file option
T56140: Move TemplateData to its own JSON-content namespace
T214984: PHP7's stricter JSON parsing breaks some wiki content (i.e. bad JSON was saved in the past using HHVM, and now if you try to edit a template that transcludes bad JSON, you will get an error even if you are not changing the JSON)

Tasks I am following.

Replacing Tidy

Report on all WPs: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikitext-deprecation/

Safe mode

You can add ?safemode=1 to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature?safemode=1. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them. [1]

Add this to vector.js to make a left-bar easy link:

importScript('User:PrimeHunter/Safe mode.js'); // Linkback: [ [User:PrimeHunter/Safe mode.js] ]

Copy edit category note

Note: This category has been reviewed to ensure that the articles actually need copy editing (i.e. that they are properly tagged). (signed)

New word count script to try

User:Caorongjin/wordcount

Template parameter values start with colon, semicolon, asterisk, pound sign

Help:Template#Problems_and_workarounds

Expand templates

Expand templates to see what the rendered wikicode (not the rendered HTML) looks like. Useful for testing sandbox code and comparing to the existing template code.

Special:ExpandTemplates

Templates for responding to edit-protected requests

{{subst:ESp|xy}} (edit-protected, not done, change X to Y)

or a script to do this in a fancy way, according to Izno:

All the cool kids actually use User:Jackmcbarn/editProtectedHelper.js

Check citations for consistency

Check citations for consistency (CS1, CS2, named, unnamed, templated, not templated) ref info / refinfo:

{{ref info|articlename|style=float:right}}

reference info for Lion

unnamed refs

132

named refs

130

self closed

79

cs1 refs

186

cs1 templates

194

cs1-like refs

4

cs1-like templates

5

refbegin templates

1

use xxx dates

dmy

cs1|2 df dmy

1

cs1|2 dmy dates

2

cs1|2 dmy access dates

39

cs1|2 dmy archive dates

41

cs1|2 ymd archive dates

19

cs1|2 last/first

140

cs1|2 author

50

List of cs1 templates

cite book (30)
Cite book (30)
cite encyclopedia (1)
Cite journal (54)
cite journal (60)
cite magazine (6)
Cite news (3)
cite news (3)
cite thesis (2)
cite web (5)

List of cs1-like templates

Cite Collier's (1)
cite iucn (3)
cite OED (1)

explanations

Editing restrictions on specific editors

Topic bans, warnings, editing restrictions: Wikipedia:Editing_restrictions

Why I never touch TemplateData

Lest we forget.

Links to Mediawiki settings and configuration files

Help:MediaWiki namespace

Site-wide CSS and JS, including mobile

MediaWiki:Common.css includes settings like navbox text = 88%

See which version of Mediawiki and extensions are installed

Special:Version

Vanity

Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

edit count rank

HTML entity codes

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp

Also URL encoding UTF-8 codes: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

JSONLint

https://jsonlint.com/

Fix JSON (sigh)

Force edit with Visual Editor

Add &veaction=edit to the edit page link.

List of wikitext editors (including Visual Editor) as of mid-2020

mw:Editor

the default MediaWiki editor from 2003, an HTML textarea
the 2010 "Extension:WikiEditor", confusingly called "enable the editing toolbar" or "the 2010 wikitext editor"
the 2017 wikitext editor (part of VisualEditor)
VisualEditor

How to see what MediaWiki page generates a system-level message

Put uselang=qqx in the query string. The ShowMessageNames gadget "Add a toolbox link to reload the current page with the system message names exposed" in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets will add a link to the sidebar to automatically do so.

Interwiki links

It's at meta:Interwiki map and changes are requested at its talk.

gutenberg: and more. Shortcuts/abbreviations to other wikis, wikidata, wikipedias, wiktionary, etc.

Wikipedia Library access

https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/

Access to JSTOR, ODNB, EBSCO, ProQuest, newspapers.com, Ancestry.com, and more.

Templates starting with http

url=http without cite web

Other common cite template biffs reports

cite book in plain text in article
cite news in plain text in article
cite web in plain text in article
See also WCW error 47 and WCW error 43, templates without proper beginning or end (template code will show in the rendered article) (3,000+ articles on each as of December 2020, yikes!)
See also WCW error 34, three or four braces instead of two.

Character sorting order

mw:Help:Sorting

Page count by namespace

Wikipedia:Database reports/Page count by namespace

number of pages in each namespace; number of articles; number of templates

How to use CS1 wrapper template

Foreign language template translation instead of redirect

See Template:Référence nécessaire.

Simpler: (Template:Edad)

<includeonly>{{Age|{{{1|}}}|{{{2|}}}|{{{3|}}}|{{{4|}}}|{{{5|}}}|{{{6|}}}}}</includeonly><noinclude>
{{documentation|content=
{{subst only|auto=y}}
This template assists with translating from Spanish to English by translating the Spanish [[:es:Template:Edad]] to the English [[Template:Age]].}}</noinclude>

And here's a good basic Template redirect to copy wikitext from:

Template:Ref-web

To see CS1 cite template auto-substitution, see {{Book cite}}

See {{Baustelle}} for more.

How to add child/embed support to an infobox

Like this

Format footnotes template

{{format footnotes}} for articles that use deprecated parenthetical referencing.

Web-based color picker

Upload an image to find HTML color values

https://imagecolorpicker.com/en

Nested footnotes FAQ

Nested ref tags do not work (with workarounds)

Yet another reason to avoid becoming an admin, or even interacting with some admins

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Bad faith accusations in response to a constructive process question about speedy deletion. Note to self: This is the at least the second time that defensive, reading-resistant admins have dragged me through the mud in response to an attempt to fix something that is clearly broken. Admins can be very territorial and possessive about "their" bailiwicks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:15, 4 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Redirects from typos in template space

Discussion and links to RFDs closed as "delete".

Watch a page without watching the talk page

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Tricks copied from VPT:

And of course there is always the workaround of Special:Relatedchanges: I use Special:Relatedchanges/User:Kusma/c to make sure edits to the articles I actually care about don't get lost in my (far too long and drama infested) watchlist. —Kusma (Кузьма · कुस्मा · 𐌺) 12:24, 27 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Message to template editor about test cases and sandbox

Twice in the last few days, you have made multiple edits to live templates that are transcluded in many pages, introducing breaking changes. I recently reverted erroneous edits at {{Flaglist}}, which happened after you broke {{UN population}}. For any but the simplest of edits, please make your edits to the template's sandbox, then use the template's testcases page to ensure that you have not broken anything, then explain your changes on the template's talk page. Feel free to ping me from a template talk page if you would like feedback on your proposed edits to a template sandbox. If there are no objections to your proposed changes, it is then appropriate to copy the sandbox code to the live template. Thanks.

Apply magic word to a different page

From Help:MAGIC:
Note: The magic words above can also take a parameter, in order to parse values on a page other than the current page. A colon (:) is used to pass the parameter, rather than a pipe (|) that is used in templates, like {{MAGICWORD:value}}. For example, {{TALKPAGENAME:Wikipedia:MOS}} returns Wikipedia talk:MOS on any page.

Why unnamed parameters are bad

I should write an essay.

one reason (blank parameter ignored when the error is an extra pipe)

Detect dead link template in sport report template

This fixed link-in-link errors.

Also fixed in non-Lua at {{Linescore}}.

Search results in template space for similar http string matching

replace spaces or other text

{{replace}} can strip spaces: {{replace|09 7 61 000| |}} → 09761000

Instructions for sloppy template editors

Revert the recent non-working edits to the live template, which is transcluded on 131 pages, in case you broke anything.
Create a sandbox version of the template.
Create and populate a testcases page.
Use Special:ExpandTemplates to figure out what the rendered version of the template's wikitext looks like.
Modify the sandbox and testcases page until you fix the problem or have a better idea of where the problem resides.
If necessary, repeat the previous two steps until you fix the problem or get stuck.
If you fix the problem, copy the sandbox code to the live template.
Post a note on the template's talk page asking for help.

TFD about redirects to Template:End

Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2020_July_12#Template:AFB_game_box_end

Template to close a table using wikitext or </table>. See also {{s-end}}.

Userbox namespace guideline

WP:UBXNS

OK to move userbox templates to User:UBX/xxyy.

In the template namespace, userbox names must begin with "User " (e.g. Template:User Brazil or Template:User en)

How page images are chosen

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageImages#Image_choice

Default page image in page information thumb thumbnail

Check for errors in Module:Political party

Special:PoliticalParty

party color link abbrev shortname colour meta/color

Find hex color from image

Put image URL here: https://imagecolorpicker.com/

Query showing stale refreshlinks

Query showing stale refreshlinks. Related to T157670 about pages not being refreshed and needing periodic null edits.

Figures are in thousands, so a page count reading "2942" is 2,942,000 pages.

Bot is operated by User talk:Wbm1058

Infobox template pages containing small tags

Infobox template pages containing small template

How to replace rail style templates

For the styles, you do this the style is the name of the module and the style2 is the table key in the name format in the Module:Adjacent stations/Istanbul Metro. if there is only one name format, you don't need the table (see Module:Adjacent stations/Sydney Metro). you can also get more fancy and use string.format like Module:Adjacent stations/Manila LRT which also keeps the colors in sync.

Module:Adjacent stations/Kaohsiung Rapid Transit is the equivalent of a module redirect, at least for these modules.

See Module:Adjacent stations/ÖBB and Module:Adjacent stations/Iarnród Éireann and Broombridge railway station for how to do branch lines.

subst code to replace template including parameters

How to set up a template to subst its parameters when converting it to another template.

This worked for {{Hover title}} converting to {{tooltip}}. We needed to swap parameters 1= and 2=, and display link= and dotted= if they existed but not introduce empty parameters if they were not already there.

The code did not work properly on the testcases page, but substing worked flawlessly.

{{tooltip|1={{{2|}}}|2={{{1|}}}{{subst:<noinclude />#if: {{{link|}}}|{{subst:<noinclude />!}}link={{{link}}}}}{{subst:<noinclude />#if: {{{dotted|}}}|{{subst:<noinclude />!}}dotted={{{dotted}}}}}}}<noinclude>
{{documentation}}
</noinclude>

Watchlist notices / messages

MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

How to change the number of items shown on Linter reports

This works for History, Contributions, and Linter report pages.

Preferences > Recent changes > Number of edits to show in recent changes, page histories, and in logs, by default

Database report template

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

[copied from Wikipedia talk:Database reports]

{{Database report}} template can now be used to set up one-off or periodically updating reports in userspace or project namespace, given an SQL query. The template doc lists the supported formatting options. Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you face any issues. – SD0001 (talk) 15:43, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Mapframe parameters for unknown parameter check

Module:Infobox mapframe

Workarounds for newline caused by # * : ; at start of parameter value causing a new line

Help:Template#Problems_and_workarounds

Purge an image that has and outdated cached image at one or more sizes

c:Help:Purge

Add ?action=purge to the File URL

Add a period (full stop) to an argument if it does not have one

{{Terminate sentence}}: This template returns its first argument, after adding a full stop (or its second argument) if the sentence was not finished.

One way to close a tag in Lua

like this

or like this

How to convert Cite Q to a real citation template

{{Cite Q |Q15625490 |expand=yes}}

Create a database report from a query

How to remove markup from automatic short descriptions

BRFA bot tasks to remember

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/VulpesBot - blanking stale IP talk pages

Module:Is infobox in lead

Module:Is infobox in lead to apply short description only if the infobox is in the lead (and a couple of other conditions)

Examples of pages where Linter errors caused the whole page or section to change formatting after a certain point

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Mexican_Wolf&oldid=204215959 (unclosed tag for 16 years turned the rest of the text blue)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2000_Heineken_Cup_final&oldid=1206683145 (unclosed table broke formatting of following sections)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Useful_idiot&oldid=1208211215#Origin (unclosed italics turned the rest of the section italic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SniperSarge&oldid=1192919494#New_10,000_Challenge_for_Canada (unclosed table put the following sections inside a table instead of being their own sections)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Arts_and_entertainment/Visual_arts&oldid=1211377695 (unclosed div tag broke section header formatting, putting all subsequent sections into two columns)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FInsert_Disc_Two&diff=1219657864&oldid=1083195480 (unclosed b tag made the rest of the page bold)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dallas_Frasca&diff=1222638673&oldid=1222443779 (unclosed table absorbed the rest of the page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABigmike&diff=1223499290&oldid=990323822 (Linter errors making the rest of the page bold)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Tiny_Town_(miniature_park)&diff=prev&oldid=1229273193 (missing closing div tag put the rest of the page in a box)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Philippe/Archive&diff=prev&oldid=1241375776 (all text was smaller after a missing end tag)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship%2FLaraLove&diff=1241398726&oldid=1090411855 (all text was smaller after a misnested tag)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AArthur_Rubin%2FArchive_2011&diff=1249244171&oldid=1190138763 (all text was smaller after a misnested tag)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ACampaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22%2FArchive_6&diff=1252243192&oldid=1134390464 (all text was smaller after a mismatched tag)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28proposals%29%2FArchive_A&diff=1252916335&oldid=1180251248 (unclosed table put a border around the rest of the page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AEvolution%2FArchive_24&diff=1253020349&oldid=1136711721 (misnested tag turned the rest of the text on the page brown)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ACunard%2FArchive_11&diff=1253591605&oldid=1078289405 (most text on the page was rendering as blue instead of black)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAlison%2FArchive_15&diff=1260682543&oldid=1190111674 (most of the text on the page was red after some tag errors)

Fix fostered content at start of table with noinclude tags

See {{AchievementTable}}. A Linter bug workaround.

Remember the dot's syntax highlighter instructions

mw:User:Remember_the_dot/Syntax_highlighter#Ignoring_unclosed_br_and_hr_tags

Filtering out pages with EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE magic word

Add __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to exclude template pages from Special:UnusedTemplates (see Tech News: 2024-36). Use inside an includeonly tag in the template.

How to fix pxpx in templates

Example diff of a template.

Sockpuppets

Vindia: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vallabharebel

How to force the Internet Archive to save a page

https://web.archive.org/save

Previous TFDs for Use XX English templates

The 2019 mass TFD did not address the redundancy or justification for their existence. Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_April_6#No-display_English_variant_types

Here's the 2021 TFD for Use Commonwealth English. It did not address the similarity with EngvarB directly. Multiple people noted that there is no such thing as "Commonwealth English".

Add topic

[sc_Poland_Richard_Marx-1] "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Airplay Top 100.

[ac_Spain_R5-2] "Spanishcharts.com – R5 – {{{album}}}". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 17, 2015.

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