Template talk:Admin backlog

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Requested edit

This template is protected, and should be tagged with {{protected template}}, or another suitable protection template. Thanks – Qxz 19:25, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editprotected

{{editprotected}} Saturation2 ^{Talk to me, or you can at my edits. Sign here if you love me.} 01:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No requested edit is apparent; resolving tag. CMummert · talk 02:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Add proposed merge tag

Place the following template wrapped in noinclude tags onto the page. {{Mergeto |Backlog |Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Merge of Template:Backlog, Template:Adminbacklog, and Template:Noadminbacklog |{{subst:DATE}} |User:Funpika}} Funpika 18:15, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Also, please ask nicely when make requests. Cheers. --MZMcBride 01:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As there is no activity on this, I'm killing the merge tag. — xaosflux ^Talk 13:56, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mbox

{{editprotected}} Please replace the first line of this template with the following: {{mbox |type=content |style=background-color: #ffe3e3; text-align:center |text=This page has a '''[[:Category:Administrative backlog|backlog]]''' that requires the attention of one or more administrators.<br/>Please remove this notice when the backlog is cleared.}}<includeonly>. Thanks. —Ms2ger (talk) 12:54, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Mr.Z-man 22:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Autohide feature

Today I noticed that User:Mike Peel added code to Category:Images with the same name on Wikimedia Commons so {{adminbacklog}} automatically hides when that category gets 50 or less items in it. I find that a nifty idea so I am thinking of adding this feature into {{adminbacklog}} itself. I have coded and tested this in this template's /sandbox page. My version in the /sandbox works like this:

{{adminbacklog/sandbox}} = Always shows, just like before.

{{adminbacklog/sandbox|10}} = Only shows when 10 or more items in the category. Can be set to whatever value you prefer.

This feature uses some ParserFunctions and the {{PAGESINCATEGORY}} magic word. This counts the number of pages + images + subcategories in the category.

Unfortunately MediaWiki only parses the code when the category page is re-rendered. That is, when someone views the page and it is more than one week since it was last re-rendered. But I think it will still be useful, since it is easier to just visit or purge the page than edit it to add or remove the {{adminbacklog}} box, and it won't clog the edit history of the category pages.

But I should disclose that I have done long time tests with this kind of logic before, and sometimes one has to do a dummy edit to the page for it to recategorise properly. Just visiting or even purging is not always enough. I have not figured out under exactly what circumstance this problem occurs. So this feature will be experimental and we'll see how it works.

So, should I deploy this?

--David Göthberg (talk) 16:04, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]