Template talk:Year nav
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[edit] Years below 101
What about years BC? And what about the 1st century? Check those out and fix them, please! /Ludde23 Talk Contrib 14:38, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- 02-Feb-2007: I have developed a new nav-box for 1st century (only): it is fairly complex and called "Template:Year nav 1st century CE" which can handle years 1-100 (and show years BC), such as for year "2":
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- The calculations are so complex that the template is dangerous to maintain, and is being purposely limited to years 1-100. An even more complex template could be created to handle any year, but perhaps, only 1 person in 1000 could understand the multiple nested calculations, making such an any-year template very dangerous to maintain. Wikitables do not yet use typical computer-language syntax, so an any-year template might use "#ifeq" nesting calculations to handle any specified year; however, even experienced computer programmers would see such a template as too arcane and obtuse to easily modify. Rule of programming: "If no one else could modify it, avoid writing it" (rule of thumb). I plan to create some less complex templates to handle only years BC. Later. -Wikid77 14:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More centuries
01-February-2007: Perhaps the centuries listed were limited to a choice of 3 due to width-limitations; however, more century numbers could be displayed by dropping "century" from other choices, such as showing "18th" rather than "18th century" (omit "century" outside the center). -Wikid77 14:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Narrowed
01-February-2007: The navigation template "Template:Year nav" had been too wide for commonplace 800x600 screens, when displayed in the yearly articles 1500-1999, so I narrowed the nav-box by using small-font for the choice of decades. Just a small narrowing allowed left-side text to format as 6-7 words per line, enough to avoid the peculiar appearance of 5 words-per-line wrapping which often produced very ragged lines because most words are 6-7 letters wide. -Wikid77 14:25, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Political World Map
Can there be a political world map for each year embedded into the year nav? It benefit the study of temporal politics. Possible difficulties I know of:
- African nations changes frequently in last century and annual map may not have sufficient granulity to reflect that
- Disputed territories between peace treaties
3Laws 23:53, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
