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I've just redirected a number of subpages of Template:Documentation, to the template itself or to its /doc, /sandbox, or /testcases page as appropriate. In all cases these were components of historical versions of the template that haven't been used for years (except on some user sandboxes and the like in a few cases), or their /doc pages or assorted sandbox/test pages. If anyone is interested in investigating deletion of any of these redirects, I have no objections, but I don't intend to pursue deletion of any of them myself.
Note that there are several subpages I did not redirect, since I'm not sure what's going on with them: Template:Documentation/Metapage, Template:Documentation/ruler, and Template:Documentation/start box appear to be used by other templates, and the /testcases subpages and some of the preload pages might be unused and unneeded, but I didn't investigate them. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 07:36, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- I undid your redirection of Template:Documentation/mirror. That template was the preload when you clicked on the "mirror" option when creating a new sandbox. I would suggest that you carefully review your other mass redirects to make sure that you didn't break anything else.
- Below is a list of the pages that were redirected:
- Template:Documentation/core/doc
- Template:Documentation/core/sandbox
- Template:Documentation/core2
- Template:Documentation/core2/doc
- Template:Documentation/core2/sandbox
- Template:Documentation/data box
- Template:Documentation/data box2
- Template:Documentation/docname
- Template:Template doc/docname
- Template:Documentation/docspace
- Template:Documentation/docspace/sandbox
- Template:Documentation/end box
- Template:Documentation/end box/testcases
- Template:Documentation/end box/sandbox
- Template:Documentation/end box2
- Template:Documentation/end box2/sandbox
- Template:Documentation/link box
- Template:Documentation/start box2
- Template:Documentation/start box2/doc
- Template:Documentation/template page
- Template:Documentation/template page/sandbox
- Template:Documentation/sandbox2
- Template:Documentation/test1
- Template:Documentation/test1/core
- Template:Documentation/test1/core/doc
- Template:Documentation/test1/core2
Template:Documentation/mirrorTemplate:Create mirror
- --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:42, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- Documentation/mirror is not transcluded anywhere and undocumented (it's not even mentioned on Documentation/doc), so I think I can be forgiven in thinking it was no longer used, given the large number of other subtemplates that were similarly unused and mostly poorly documented or undocumented. I didn't redirect Documentation/doc; I'm not sure why you listed it, so I removed it from the list. All the other templates you listed are as I explained above - components of historical versions of Documentation that were superseded and deprecated by Module:Documentation, along with an array of attendant documentation, sandbox, and test pages (in the case of the Documentation/core subpages, Documentation/core has been a redirect since 2013, but none of its subpages had been redirected until I did it, just to give an example of the state of most of these subpages). That being said, I've reorganized the list (and removed a duplicate entry) to allow others to more easily review my changes. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:11, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- You have broken many old versions, we often look through page history particularly with templates, in order to find out how they worked prior to being Luaised. What was the reasoning behind this change? Why was it not noted in the edit summary? Did you seek consensus for these changes? I see no reason why I should not revert every single one of these edits. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:40, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- The only old versions of anything I "broke" would be old versions of {{Documentation}}; old versions of templates are always rendered using the current versions of any transcluded templates, so old versions of other templates use the current version of {{Documentation}} instead of any of these old subtemplates. In addition, I'm not aware of any widely-accepted recommendations to preserve unused templates that were formerly widely used just to prevent old revisions from being displayed brokenly; otherwise, any time a formerly widely-used template came up at TfD, or a formerly widely-used redirect to a template at RfD, it would be snowball kept, and that's definitely not the case. I also don't appreciate you threatening to revert all my edits here, and then immediately doing so while claiming in every single revert summary that I didn't explain my edits - I left a detailed explanation here, and if you'd like me to individually explain any specific edit, I'd be more than happy to. Honestly, I'm surprised and disappointed at just how controversial this set of changes apparently is, given these pages have been unused and largely untouched for years (at least since Module:Documentation was written and deployed, and in many cases even prior to that). 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 20:13, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not aware of any widely-accepted recommendations to redirect unused templates. What harm were they doing as non-redirects? You left no edit summaries. You did not discuss before making such big changes. You have not even left any justification, then or now, for redirecting all those pages, that doesn't boil down to "I did it because I wanted to".
- Now, I do quite a bit of work with templates, and have done so for several years. Sometimes, a template gets converted to Lua, and its behaviour usually changes. To compare, I will copy the pre-Lua version over the current one, and preview an appropriate article (without saving the template). If the pre-Lua template had subtemplates, as Template:Documentation does, such a preview is useless if all the subtemplates have been mangled. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:10, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed. It is very useful to be able to check what an old version of a template did and there would need to be a good reason to complicate that functionality. To look at it another way, what possible benefit would there be from replacing Template:Documentation/core/doc with a redirect to some unrelated stuff? Johnuniq (talk) 02:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
- For starters, because Template:Documentation/core was redirected to Template:Documentation years ago, and yet neither of you, nor anyone else that I've seen, have once complained about that redirect, even though that subtemplate was just as widely used as the others. But it's clear that I'm not going to make any headway here, so by all means let's leave these useless pages lying around because a small number of users likes to look at them once in a blue moon. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 07:14, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
- Agreed. It is very useful to be able to check what an old version of a template did and there would need to be a good reason to complicate that functionality. To look at it another way, what possible benefit would there be from replacing Template:Documentation/core/doc with a redirect to some unrelated stuff? Johnuniq (talk) 02:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
- The only old versions of anything I "broke" would be old versions of {{Documentation}}; old versions of templates are always rendered using the current versions of any transcluded templates, so old versions of other templates use the current version of {{Documentation}} instead of any of these old subtemplates. In addition, I'm not aware of any widely-accepted recommendations to preserve unused templates that were formerly widely used just to prevent old revisions from being displayed brokenly; otherwise, any time a formerly widely-used template came up at TfD, or a formerly widely-used redirect to a template at RfD, it would be snowball kept, and that's definitely not the case. I also don't appreciate you threatening to revert all my edits here, and then immediately doing so while claiming in every single revert summary that I didn't explain my edits - I left a detailed explanation here, and if you'd like me to individually explain any specific edit, I'd be more than happy to. Honestly, I'm surprised and disappointed at just how controversial this set of changes apparently is, given these pages have been unused and largely untouched for years (at least since Module:Documentation was written and deployed, and in many cases even prior to that). 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 20:13, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- You have broken many old versions, we often look through page history particularly with templates, in order to find out how they worked prior to being Luaised. What was the reasoning behind this change? Why was it not noted in the edit summary? Did you seek consensus for these changes? I see no reason why I should not revert every single one of these edits. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:40, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- Documentation/mirror is not transcluded anywhere and undocumented (it's not even mentioned on Documentation/doc), so I think I can be forgiven in thinking it was no longer used, given the large number of other subtemplates that were similarly unused and mostly poorly documented or undocumented. I didn't redirect Documentation/doc; I'm not sure why you listed it, so I removed it from the list. All the other templates you listed are as I explained above - components of historical versions of Documentation that were superseded and deprecated by Module:Documentation, along with an array of attendant documentation, sandbox, and test pages (in the case of the Documentation/core subpages, Documentation/core has been a redirect since 2013, but none of its subpages had been redirected until I did it, just to give an example of the state of most of these subpages). That being said, I've reorganized the list (and removed a duplicate entry) to allow others to more easily review my changes. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:11, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
"documentation" headline isn't classed as .mw-headline
this causes custom written css styles to not work very well. I'm using one that sets headlines in a serif font, but that does not apply to the "documentation" headline in the template, since css does not recognise it as a headline.
basically, to make it consistent with standard headlines across the wiki, I'd have to add class="mw-headline" to the span tag. I'm unsure as to how and where to change this, though, and I don't want to break anything. could anyone help me out here? —mountainhead / ? 16:18, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Floating weirdness on mobile site
So I noticed floated templates can look weird on the mobile site if viewed in a browser that supports floating. Inserting {{clear}} before the documentation template fixes it, but the clearing should probably not have to be put on every template page. Looking at the generated HTML, I spotted this:
<div id="template-documentation" class="template-documentation iezoomfix">
It would get solved if we used the following instead:
<div id="template-documentation" class="template-documentation iezoomfix" style="clear:both;">
But that's the HTML. To get it we would probably have make some change Module:Documentation, where I found this:
:addClass(message('main-div-classes'))
A bit later, I found this:
:css('clear', 'both') -- So right or left floating items don't stick out of the doc box.
Maybe making a copy of that line right after the other one would solve this? I don't know for sure, but I did think of another way to solve this: applying the following CSS to the mobile site:
.template-documentation{
clear: both;
}
That's saying floated stuff can't be to the left or right of anything of the class template-documentation. Which should push the heading down.
This issue also affects any floated templates, though it looks more distracting if they're floated to the left. – Pretended leer {talk} 12:52, 24 October 2018 (UTC)