Template talk:EducationalAssignment

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Contents 1 Date parameter suggested 2 Link documentation 3 Category 4 Past projects

[edit] Date parameter suggested

I suggest adding an optional "date=" parameter so we have some idea of the time period involved. Perhaps it should be the completion date of the assignment; readers will recognize that dates in the future implies that activity is ongoing. (SEWilco 18:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC))

Good idea, support - but not sure how to implement.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  18:58, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. (SEWilco 18:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Link documentation

Maybe the documentation for the link should include an example of a link to Wikipedia:School and university projects#project title. (SEWilco 18:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC))

Support as above.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  18:58, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Done. (SEWilco 18:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Category

We should probably create a category that would add articles (or their talk pages) tagged with this template to a category. Any suggestions for the name and place in category structure? -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 02:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

This template automatically places articles into Category:Wikipedia articles as assignments. --Geniac 19:06, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Past projects

While it seems that the template has some if function that is supposed to change the wording from 'currently' to 'was' for past projects after given date, it does not seem to work - I see a lot of past projects with the 'current' wording. I am going to adjust the template, removing the if wording, and making it ambiguous (is or was the subject of...). Feel free to revert me and update the template if you know how to make the if function work properly (maybe its the fault of people adding template to the articles and not providing the correct date parameter...?).--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

It would be simpler to just split this template into a "current" and a "past" one. There could then be two different categories for current and past projects. This functionality can be implemented with an if function, but it won't work if the ending date is not provided. As it will also make the template more complex and harder to edit in the future, I'd support the simpler, two-template solution. What do you think? --Waldir ^talk 13:59, 13 April 2008 (UTC)