Template talk:Topic

Suggestion

Resolved

 – Done.

It would be nice for collaboration to be included in the template. --Midnighttonight Procrastinating on uni work... 04:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Done. Use the "collab" parameter, like so: {{topic|Canada|collab=Canada collaboration}} creates:

This doesn't auto-detect, since as far as I can tell there is no naming pattern for collaboration pages. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Request

Resolved

 – Something practical was done to resolve the issue.

Currently, the parameter pna assumes that the project has a cleanup page of the type: "Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/X." Can the template be modified to optionally point to the cleanup listings generated in Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 13:13, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

The "Wikipedia Pages needing attention/X" stuff has been abandoned. So has Wolterbot's stuff (hasn't done anything since Mar. 2010). I've modified it so that it uses "Category:{{{attention}}} articles needing attention", and it will automatically use {{{1}}} if {{{attention}}} unspecified. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 10:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Image size

Stale

 – Underlying template has to be fixed first.

Would it be possible to add an option to adjust the image size? Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 20:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

"Can't fix": The underlying {{Notice}} template doesn't support that. It would need to be upgraded first. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 10:18, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Result is dependent on the case of the input

Resolved

 – Fixed to the extent practical.

• {{topic|Film}}

• {{topic|film}}

This is not an issue if the topic is a proper noun, such as Canada:

• {{topic|Canada}}

—G716 <^T·_C> 20:23, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Half Won't fix and half Fixed: Way too much hassle to deal with installing some kind of case detector, and we're all very used to article names being capitalized, like Chocolate and Dog, as a matter of jargonistic Wikipedia-internal style. That said, there are now parameters for custom-specifying EVERYthing, so if this comes up, it'll just be manually fixed on a case-by-case basis. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 09:48, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Incomplete parsing?

Resolved

 – It's a system limitation with a clear workaround.

Can somebody account for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat where only the first items are fully listed, whereas for most of the page only two items (Article – Category) get listed? __meco (talk) 12:42, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Your page has been automatically added to Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. See Wikipedia:Template_limits#Expensive_parser_function_calls. Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 23:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

You are allowed no more than 500 calls to expensive parser function calls in any one article. {{topic}} calls "#ifexist" six times, so you cannot use this template more than ~80 times on a page. Perhaps you could split your page into [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/United States states]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/United States cities]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/Africa]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/Europe]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/Topics]], and so on, and then includes links to these subpages on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat Regards—G716 <^T·_C> 05:20, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

That reads like a good idea. I'll see if I can get that implemented. __meco (talk) 06:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Heh. Six years later and still not implemented. Warning: This page contains too many expensive parser function calls. It should have less than 500 calls, there are now 3,559 calls.

Let's see, 3,559 ÷ 500 = 8 (rounding up) pages that the report would need to be split into. Too much work. An easier solution is simply to make a version of {{topic}} that doesn't care about red-links, and thus has no use for the expensive "#ifexist" function. – Wbm1058 (talk) 03:06, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat now uses {{Topic links}}. That was a fair amount of work too, but now that page is a lot happier. Wbm1058 (talk) 17:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Overhaul

I've totally overhauled the code, for redundancy removal, new features (more coming as I think of them), failsafes, increased flexibility (e.g. two topics), updates for new locations for things like the "needing attention" material, and so on.— Preceding unsigned comment added by SMcCandlish (talk • contribs) 10:28, 15 August 2011

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