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Template notices

Template:Template test cases notice and Template:Template sandbox notice should be updated for nonstandard test case locations, additionally, test case notice template needs to be updated of nonstandard sandbox location that the sandbox notice template already supports. 76.66.196.229 (talk) 09:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many other templates, like for instance {{documentation}}, and most experienced template coders expect the standard names /sandbox and /testcases. So a better approach is to move your non-standard pages to the standard names. If you have a /testcases page that is used for several templates, then you can redirect the /testcases pages of the other templates to the main /testcases page.

--David Göthberg (talk) 15:25, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

((test-mode))

We now have the {{test-mode}} template for advanced testing. It provides a test-mode where the test version of a template is shown in the articles instead of the normal version. It is especially useful for testing meta-templates and sub-templates that might be several steps away from the templates placed on the pages, so we can't call the test versions directly.

The test-mode should only be used after the normal testing in the /sandbox and /testcases pages has been done.

--David Göthberg (talk) 15:31, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Parameter test categories

I've followed the procedure for testing changes to a template (I'm updating the use of two parameters to be in line with other templates), and the results are fine: most examples work exactly the same as before, current parameter use doesn't break my proposed version (though they don't benefit from the "italics" fields anymore unless edited), and new parameters work exactly as I want in the new version.

But my question is this: before introducing it, I'd like to find all current uses of the parameters that I'm changing ("preceded_by_italics"/"followed_by_italics") to make sure I can update them. The simplest way I can think of is to make a temporary edit to the template, so that use of these parameters adds the articles to a specific category (e.g. {{#if:{{{preceded_by_italics|}}}|[[Category:Articles with short story infobox italics]]}}); would this temporary testing be allowed (it seems in line with Template:Test-mode editing, for example)? If not, what's the best way to find all the instances where this parameter is used, without trawling through every article that has the template? --xensyria^T 20:35, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]