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Sardanaphalus

Joined 11 September 2005
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  • / Sandbox
    • Wikipedia
    • Template
  • User pages
  • Magic words
    • ParserFunctions
  • / X11 color names
  • wp:resol
  • Village Pump
  • / common.css (used to disable small "Group / Page notice" links)
  • MediaWiki:Common.css
  • Stub types

TemplatesEdit

  • Aligned table
  • Table
  • !-! ( !-!! ) / br!-! … [ If either
  • both
  • (Use f/)First nonempty
  • If affirmed / declined ] … [ When pagename is / on template page (→template other) / on basepage
  • \sandbox
  • pgn ] … Treflist (Template reference list)  … ASCII code
  • String-handling templates
  • Sup and sub-related templates
  • Namespace and pagename-detecting templates
  • Column-generating template families
  • born-died (cf borndied) / present
  • Markup
FunctionEdit
  • / Parameter descriptions
  • / Markup (/row)
    • / Start sandbox–main …
    •   / Sandbox–main
    • / End sandbox–main …
  • / (Award\prizewinners by decade\period)
  • / Microformat message
    • / Template for discussion (TfD)
    • … / dated
    • / RMassist
    • / Shortcut
    • / Wikivar
    • / Quote box
  • / Startflatlist (with wordy documentation)
  • / Uses Lua
  • / No.
Template collectionsEdit
    • / Hatnote templates documentation
    •   / Hatnote templates
  • / Pagelinks templates
  • / Character substitution templates
    • / Inline spacing templates
    •   subsuming Quotation mark templates
  • / Code and markup presentation templates
    • / Template linking and syntax templates
    •   / Template-linking templates
    •   / Template category summary table
  • / Wikipedia icon templates
  • / List-template documentation ( ublist blist … )
Info/navboxes etcEdit
  • / Emergence
  • / Infobox UK place
  • / Infobox bibliography
  • / Infobox language
  • / Timeline of Mongol invasions and conquests
  • / Infobox nutritional value
  • / Solar System (using Navbox with columns)
  • / British Army Mounted Brigade
    • / Infobox region history
    • … / datastyle
  • / Design
  • / Japanese era names
  • / UK Local Government Acts
    • / Corpus Aristotelicum table
    • in two columns
  • / Political parties of area
  • / Nuclear technology templates
Historical period/era/epochEdit
  • Category:Prehistoric period navigational boxes
    Category:Historical period templates
  • {{Human history and prehistory}}
     = {{Human prehistory}} + {{Human history}}
  • Category:Historical epoch sidebar templates
    Prehistory History (i.e. recorded)
    • 01 {{Stone Age}}
    •  01.1 {{Paleolithic}}
    •  01.2 {{Mesolithic}}
    •  01.3 {{Neolithic}}
    • 02 {{Chalcolithic}}
    • 03 {{Bronze Age}}
    • 04 {{Iron Age}}
    • 05 {{Ancient history}}
    • 06 Postclassical history sidebar?
    • 07 Modern history sidebar?
      • C: Geology templates
      • C: Geological period templates
    •  (via {{Quaternary footer}})
"see also"-type templates etcEdit
    • Auxiliary template common notice (rename)
      • (see also C: Wikipedia character-substitution templates
      •    Help:Metatemplating#Braces ff.
      • C: Table templates)

    • C: Documentation see also templates
    • C: Quotation templates
    • Template-linking templates

    • Birth, death and age templates (convert this & similar to use only {{div col}}..?)
    • Date templates

  • Fake template list ("Fake..." and "Dummy..." templates, i.e. Fake heading / Fake tag / Fake clarify / Dummy ref / etc.)
  • Image request templates / Media request templates / etc.
    • Documentation/see also
    • Done/See also ("Wikipedia icon" templates)
    • Subst helper templates
    • Warchivenav
    • Dispute templates
    • Portal template list
    • Metatemplate doc
  • Wikipedia:Template messages (Disambiguation and redirection)
    Wikipedia:Lua

To finish / doEdit

  • /Navbox–Sidebar–Infobox RfC
  • {{When pagename is}} or {{When on page}} at start of {{Resize/doc}}
  • Template:→/doc
  • Category:Username internal link templates
  • Convert Infoboxes using 110% listtitles to listtitles with backgrounds
  • Rework Compact ToC/sandbox (updated "Parameters" doc section)
  • Rename templates listed by Namespace detect see also pending outcome of "If pagename" etc rename requests (When pagename is/sandbox and documentation; If pagename multi → When on page and documentation)
  • Update lang documentation (size parameter)
  • Finish updating Testcases notice/doc
  • Marriage/sandbox or/and new subinfobox for Infoboxes?
  • Category:Inline spacing templates
  • Category:Template documentation needs some reorganisation (e.g. has subcategory Documentation pages, subsubcategory Template documentation pages, …)
  • Infobox settlement/sandbox
  • Infobox tram network
  • Tracking category
  • Citation Style 1/sandbox (trying div col-based layout)
  • Collapsible option/sandbox (ditto)
  • Belief systems, currently titled "Theological thought" and including "X theology"..?
By typeEdit
Renaming / params
  • Pages that link to Greek mathematics → Ancient Greek mathematics
  • Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WWII timelines
  • WhatLinksHere for Infobox research institute
  • Expanded-list parameter in articles transcluding Thermodynamics
  • Pages that link to "Template:Special Effects"
  • Missing "?"s from templates listed here
Internal
  • Userspace linking templates/sandbox
  • Suggestions for This is a redirect (prompted by 5′ cap)
  • Protection templates
  • Deletion tools/sandbox
  • Tools (name too general, make first few groups a "Templates" section)
  • Combine pad / padl ({{pad | l |…}}?) / padr ({{pad | r |…}}?) / padlr ({{pad | lr |…}})..?
Infobox-related
  • Infobox language (…/sandbox)
  • Organization infoboxes
  • WikiProject Infoboxes sidebar
  • Infobox laboratory
  • Seriesbox aircraft propulsion
  • Infobox U.S. state/sandbox / Infobox U.S. state/testcases
  • Infobox artifact
  • Infobox musical artist (label/datastyle)
  • Infobox ethnic group (separate column for [ref]s or "[cn]"s ("citation needed"s..?)
  • Infobox continent
  • Infobox web browser
  • Infobox video game/sandbox (Alternating rows table section)
  • Template talk:Infobox country#...
  • GNF Protein box (cf instance at Carboxypeptidase B2)
  • Infobox brewery/sandbox (Infobox brewery/beer list)
  • Christ myth theory
Category-related
  • Category:European history by nation navigational boxes
  • Category:Legend templates (and incoporate a "block-character" legend based on [1] / [2] for sake of e.g. National electoral calendar 2014)
  • Category:TestTemplates → e.g. Category:TestN and related templates
  • Category:If-then-else templates ( {{tag|plain...}} )
  • {{Category header}}
  • Africa... / Asia... / etc within Category:Labelled map templates
  • Description at Category:Typing-aid templates is "templates that save time and typing for editors or provide formatting effects like coloration" – isn't the latter another category..?
Physics-related
  • Make Relativity = Special relativity + General relativity (compare Special relativity sidebar and General relativity sidebar) (Pages that link to "Template:General relativity")
  • Spacetime
  • Gravitational lensing
  • Pages that link to "Template:String theory"
Articles
  • Textus Receptus
  • Targum (singularise)
  • List of monarchies
  • Tutankhamun / Akhenaten / Ramesses II
  • Astronomical object
  • Existence
  • Inline engine
  • Oscillation
  • List of political parties named "Labour Party" or similar
  • Universe
  • Hypothetical imperative
  • Retirement
SecondaryEdit
  • Culture of region
  • History of China/sandbox
  • Bible-related links
  • Forensic science (too tall?)
  • Aristocratic family trees
  • Egyptian Dynasty list
  • History of Egypt (align years, replace near-invisible grey)
  • Animal testing navbox / Animal testing (and rename)
  • World geologic provinces
  • Paranormal
  • Orthodoxy
  • Group theory sidebar
  • The VIZE 97 Prize
  • Wolf Prize in Mathematics
  • Baroque music
  • Woodwinds / Brass / etc.
  • Elizabeth II (Navbox with collapsible sections)
  • English grammar/sandbox
  • The Tempest (Navbox with collapsible sections)
  • Types of tools footer (rename)
  • Allied reporting names
  • Clint Eastwood sidebar
  • Speedy deletion notices (follow {{Speedy deletion templates}})
  • Electoral systems
  • Catholic Ecumenical Councils (update name parameter and formatting)
  • Transport
  • Train topics
  • Millennia (make more table-like to add one/two links per entry to iconic event/s?)
  • Computer security
  • Fooian fooers/sandbox and incorporate Occupation by nationality..?
  • Portal nav / Portal nav footer
  • Alphabet (rename, debullet, etc)
  • Polytopes (convert to Navbox)
  • Accounting
  • Tort law
  • Public finance
  • Same-sex unions (font-sizes)
  • Mesopotamian myth
  • Zen Buddhism (reduce overall height)
  • Carbohydrates
  • Color topics
  • Tables in Help:Visual file markup
  • Table/navbox derived from Figure of speech#Schemes
  • Greek myth (personified)
  • int duplicates ifnumber..?
  • Anthropology (convert to Sidebar with collapsible lists..?)
  • Anthropology of religion
  • History of South Asia
  • Christian mysticism
  • Merge Philosophical paradoxes / Economic paradoxes / Logical paradoxes / Decision theory paradoxes( / etc) into single e.g. Navbox with collapsible sections?
  • Replace {{Disbaility}} with {{Disability sidebar}} and add listname parameter
  • Google-related templates..? (see e.g. {{Google custom/doc}} · Cat:Google search templates)
  • Canadian petroleum history
  • Tabulate (sortable) Gerald Cockshott#Compositions
  • Grammatical moods
  • Templates/transclusions relating to Anatomical lists etc
  • Combine the various tables in Radio spectrum#By frequency into one..?
  • Historical definitions of race (no unlinked text)
  • Sensors (Navbox with collapsible sections)
  • Human evolution
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Race
  • Music topics
  • Geology2
  • Languages of South Asia
  • Theories of History (rename, categorise, etc)
  • hlists within instances of {{Infobox music genre}}
  • Try converting String-handling templates / Math templates (/ etc?) to use Start/div col end..?
  • {{Namespaces}} (some lef+right column padding, categorise)

Formatting etcEdit

Sandbox non-categorisation  on /doc pages

<includeonly>{{#ifeq:{{SUBPAGENAME}}|sandbox |
| <!-- Categories below this line, please; interwikis at Wikidata -->

}}</includeonly>

Images directly above/below Sidebar(/Infobox?)
Add following to Sidebar(/Infobox?) and remove newlines/comment:

| topimage = {{#if:{{{image|}}} |[[File:{{{image}}}|
{{{imagesize|220px}}}|{{{imagealt|}}}|link={{{imagelink|}}}]]}}
| topcaptionstyle = 
padding-bottom:[ 0.4 ]em;[ border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; ]
| topcaption = {{{caption|}}}

<!--If image parameter in use:-->
| image = {{#if:{{{image|}}} | |[previous image code]}}
previous
  {{Multiple image
  | direction = vertical
  | width = 250 <!--(px) (≃ 22.0em)-->
  | header_align = center  <!--(if sidebar/infobox above image/s)-->
  | header = {{...| [embedded/child/child=...] }}  <!--(ditto)-->
  | image1 = [filename]
  | alt1 = [text]
  | caption1 = {{center| [text] }}
  ( | image2 = [etc]
    ......
    | image10 = [etc] )
  | footer_align = center  <!--(if sidebar/infobox below image/s)-->
  | footer = {{...| [embedded/child/child=...] }}  <!--(ditto)-->
  }}
  
Sidebar / Infobox may require:
[]style = {{#switch:{{{1|}}}|embedded|child=border:none;font-size:100%;}}

Wikicode table without start-row syntax

{| ......                     {| ......
!  .......... !! ......       {{br!-!!}} ... !! ......
{{br!-!}} ... || ......       {{br!-!}} .... || ......
{{br!-!}} ... || ......
|- (style="..." etc)
| ........... || ......
{{br!-!}} ... || ......       (etc)

(etc)

|}                            |}
    • plain
    • italic
    • smallcaps
    • italic smallcaps
    • bold
    • bold italic
    • bold smallcaps
    • bold italic smallcaps
    • ellipsis = Alt+0133 
    •  ndash = Alt+0150 
    •  para = Alt+0182
    • equals = &#61; 
    •  colon = &#58;
  • Whitespace characters (also Unicode spaces)
    • {{thinsp}} (thin space)
    • {{hsp}} ("hairline" space)
    • {{gaps}}
    • {{padl}} / {{padr}} / {{padlr}}
  • {{int:dot-separator}} ( ≡ {{dot}}..? )
    • (novisibility) visibility:hidden; (but leaves space)
    • (nodisplay)  display:none;             (and no space)
  • Lowercase Greek letters used as category indices:
    • α (archival?)
    • π (portal)
    • τ (template)
    • σ (stub?)
    • χ (inactive, deprecated, etc)

    • ω (Wikipedia: / WikiProject)
    • .........
  • {{noflag}} (or {{flagicon}} without parameter/s)
  • Relative font-sizes (User:Edokter/fonttest)
  • To trim whitespace from {{{X}}}, use {{#if:true|{{{X|}}}}}
    ( ≡ {{trim}} )  (User:Mr. Stradivarius).
    • <ref name="…">…</ref>
    • <ref name="…"/>
    • {{refpage|page#}}
    • {{refpages|page#–page# … page#, page# …}}
    • {{#tag:ref …}}
  • {{longitem}} = padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.2em;
  • {{longlink}} = padding:0.2em 0.4em;line-height:1.2em;
  • Place content within <div [class="nocolbreak"] ''and/or'' [style="display:inline-block;"]>...</div> to prevent it being wrapped by e.g. {{Div col}}.
  • "Wrap {{BASEPAGENAME}} inside {{#titleparts…}} in case category name contains an apostrophe. See warning box at mw:Help:Magic words#Page names." (User:John of Reading)
  • table-layout:auto; ..... Column width set by widest unbreakable content;   
    table-layout:fixed; ... Horizontal layout depends only on table's and columns' widths, i.e. regardless of content.


Sidebar / subsidebar / subinfobox

  • If headings given backgrounds, use contentstyle=padding-top:0.2em;padding-bottom[0.6 – 0.8]em; otherwise content starts too close to background.
  • Use display:block;margin-bottom:N; in a Sidebar's titlestyle to add gap between title and first heading's background.
  • {{subsidebar bodystyle}} → {{subinfobox bodystyle}} :
clear:none;float:none;width:100%;font-size:100%;margin:0;
border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;border:none
  • For a subsidebar[/infobox?] as content/listN,
  • add | content/listNstyle = padding-bottom:0;
  • and use: {{Sidebar |child |navbar=off
  • |bodystyle={{subsidebar bodystyle}} …}}

{{Documentation}} below Navbox

}}<noinclude>
{{Documentation
 | content =
{{Collapsible option |statename=optional}}

<!--[[Category:...]]-->
<!--[[Category:...]]-->
}}<!--(end Documentation)-->
</noinclude>

Indentation

Text following an initial colon (indent)
  • Text following an intial asterisk (bullet)

 Text following a {{pad|1.4em}}

Text in a div style="padding-left:1.6em;"
Text in a div style="margin-left:1.6em;"

Infobox label/datastyleEdit

...by increasing labelstyle line-height then padding-top.
Add padding-right:1.0em; to labelstyle to ensure gap between labels and data.

labelstyle datastyle Infobox…
padding-top line-height line-height
0.225em 1.1em 1.3em …scientist …medical specialty …writer …scholar …award
0.225em 1.1em 1.35em …language
0.225em 1.15em 1.35em …company …book …product …element …casino …building
0.235em 1.15em 1.3em …film
0.245em 1.15em 1.35em …military person/sandbox …military memorial …cultivar …prepared food
0.2em 1.2em 1.3em …sport
0.2em 1.2em
padding-top:0.1em
1.3em
…political party
0.2em 1.2em 1.35em …file format
0.2em 1.2em – …organization
0.225em 1.2em – …airline
0.15em – – MWband with {{longitem}}ed labels

Navbox / Sidebar suite and Infobox parameter namesEdit

See /Comparison of Navbox, Sidebar and Infobox parameter names

    • Navbox
    • Navbox subgroup
    • Navbox with collapsible groups/sections
    • Navbox with columns
    • (Navboxes)
    • Sidebar
    • Sidebar with collapsible lists
    • Infobox
  • Reserve "…name" for internal use   (as with name (Navbox) and listNname (Sidebar with collapsible lists))
    Reserve "…title" for text displayed as if a name   (as with title (ditto) and listNtitle (ditto))
  • Rename Infobox's title and above to Sidebar's outertitle and title.
Navbox Navbox with collapsible sections Sidebar with collapsible lists
— sect[ion]Nname  (abbrN (not visible; used internally)) listNname (not visible; used internally)
groupNtitle  (titleN?)  (groupN) sect[ion]Ntitle  (groupN · sect[ion]N) listNtitle (visible)
groupN  (contentN?)  (listN) sect[ion]N  (listN · contentN) listN

MiscellaneousEdit

  • / Portal:Mind and brain backup
  • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive868#Editor subverting "XfD" discussion and edit-warring

Quasi-mysterious scraps from old user pages

  • "Looks like the key is to place the "padding:0 !important" overrides within {{Navbox}} for activation when {{Navbox|child}} used..?"
    (with reference to e.g. | list2style = padding:0 !important;)
Old user pages
  • /Wikipedia templates
  • /Template categories
  • /List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft (example layout)


Colo/ursEdit

 #ccf              (navbox-title)
 #ddf              (navbox-abovebelow)
 #e6e6ff        (within navbox-subgroup)
 ( #e9e9ff )
 ( #eaeaff )
 ( #eef )
 ( gainsboro )
 ( #e5e5e5 )
 ( #e8e8e8 )
 ( #eee )
 ( whitesmoke )
 ( beige )
 lightsteelblue ( #b0c4de )
 (lighter lightsteelblue) ( #d4dfed )
"Link blue" = #002bb8

CSS classesEdit

from Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes#Classes

  • boilerplate
  • collapsible / collapsed / autocollapse / innercollapse / outercollapse
  • collapseButton
  • floatright / floatleft / floatnone
  • hlist
    • hwrap
  • infobox
  • plainlist
  • navbox
    • navbox-title / navbox-group / navbox-abovebelow
  • NavFrame / NavHead / NavPic / NavContent
  • nowrap / wrap
    • nowraplinks / wraplinks
  • sortable / sortarrow / sortbottom / sortheader / unsortable
  • toccolours
  • vcard
  • wikitable

noticed elsewhere

  • above
  • mbox-inside (see e.g. {{Information}})
  • mbox-small
  • mergedtoprow / mergedrow / mergedbottomrow
  • plainlinks
  • metadata
  • nourlexpansion
  • mw-collapsible
  • nocolbreak (use e.g. within {{Div col}}s)
  • plainrowheaders (as part of table class)

navbox

-title ( #ccf )
 
-group
 
-subgroup
 
-abovebelow ( #ddf )
 
-subgroup -abovebelow
 
-title
#ccf
-abovebelow
#ddf
-group -subgroup
-abovebelow
within -subgroup
#e6e6ff
-group
within -subgroup
#e6e6ff

General topic areas according to Wikipedia templates
  • Arts and culture
  • Geography and place
  • Health and fitness
  • History and events
  • People and person
  • Philosophy and thinking
  • Religion and belief
  • Science and nature
  • Society and social science
  • Technology and applied science


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