Template talk:Infobox Holiday
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[edit] Holidays That Use This Template
This just keeps a list of all holidays that use this template. Please add a link to any holiday on which this template is used.
(List of articles removed - joturner 21:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC))
- Note: The message above was written by me, the people who put the template have their name up there. DaGizzaChat © 08:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
No, I am not partial to Jewish holidays. The reason I've been adding the template to quite a few Jewish holidays is that they all had the old holiday template on them. joturner 01:18, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I have added this template to a few Jewish holidays and have not added them to this list. Why is there a hard to update list here when one could use 'what links here' to see where it is used? Jon513 21:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed, please DON'T add to this list. Look at Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_Holiday instead. pfctdayelise (translate?) 21:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Attributes for the Template
- holiday_name - required - This is the most common holiday name, which appears at the top of the infobox. It should almost always be the name of the article.
- color1 - required - This is the background color for the holiday name cell.
- image - optional - This should be an image that represents the holiday.
- caption - optional - This is a caption that describes the image.
- color2 - required, if a caption is set - This is the background color for the image caption.
- color3 - required - This is the background color for the cells that hold the information titles.
- official_name - optional - This should contain the official name of the holiday if it is not the holiday_name; this can also be the name of the holiday in its original language
- nickname - optional - This should hold any nicknames, alternatives, and translations for the holiday_name or official_name
- observedby - highly reccommended - These are the people who celebrate/observe the holiday (e.g. Muslims and Islam, United States of America, people worldwide)
- begins - required for multi-day holidays - This is the starting date for a multi-day holiday.
- ends - required for multi-day holidays - This is the ending date for a multi-day holiday.
- date - required for single-day holidays - This is the date of a single-day holiday.
- date2006 - highly reccommended for holidays that don't stay on the same Gregorian date - This is the Gregorian date on which the holiday will occur in 2006. At the end of 2006, this will be replaced with date2007, which will later be replaced with date2008. Therefore, it's a good idea to specify the Gregorian date for a few future years.
- celebrations - optional - This contains the celebrations that occur on the holiday.
- observances - optional - This contains essentially the same thing as the celebrations attribute. However, the word observances is used. This may be more appropriate than celebrations when referring to prayer or more solemn observances. Most likely, you will not need both celebrations and observances.
- relatedto - optional - This contains holidays that relate to the current holiday.
- I'm going to copy this to the template in a noinclude. pfctdayelise (translate?) 21:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Standardize the colors
Considering that 90% of infoboxes have a defined set of colors, I think those used in this infobox could use a single definition for all holidays, or a restricted set of colors.
Not onlydoes the green color used on some Ilamic holidays (Eid ul-Adha) looks awful, but New Year's Eve is just plain illegible!!! Circeus 17:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- I am just a casual (and recent) user of this template, but I agree with the utility of a consistent color format. (Although I had did have fun trying to find some colors for Maryland Day and Mardi Gras.) I also would recommend only one color in the header field, and plain white everywhere else. Also, its a good idea for infoboxes to be registered on Wikipedia:Infobox, and infobox colors at Wikipedia:Infobox colours. — Eoghanacht talk 19:17, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- I personally don't have a problem seeing either of the colors mentioned above (maybe differing screen settings?). If you have an issue with the colors, you are free to change the colors. joturner 19:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
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- How about this, controlled by a {{ #switch: }} :
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Category Colour-Code Comments Islam 7FBF7F Judaism 99CCFF Buddhism FFEEC2 Christianity FAEBD7 Asian festivals EF999E Pagan/Neopagan AFEEEE Secular CCCCCC also used for sects
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- Circeus 13:25, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- Buddhism and Christianity colors look practically identical on my current monitor - I'm assuming they should not be... --Eliyak T·C 19:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Have updated the template
Was updating the template because to remove hiddenstructure, but did some more format. I have defined the param "type" to decide what color the infobox should have, making the parameters color1..color3 obsolete, the infoboxes still using those parameters can be found at Category:Non-standard holiday infoboxes.
The colors I defines is:
| Type (param "type") | Color |
|---|---|
| islam | LightGreen |
| judaism | LightSkyBlue |
| buddhism | PaleGoldenRod |
| christianity | Lavender |
| asian festival | RosyBrown |
| secular | DarkGray |
| (inter)national | MediumOrchid |
| historical/cultural | LightSalmon |
| pagan | DarkKhaki |
| commercial | HotPink |
| default | LightSteelBlue |
As during the transition period, the default color will be defined color1 if found. (edit: forgot that hex-values are a bit borken for the moment, removing backward compat mode for the moment.) →AzaToth 20:47, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- Fixed all the old articles in Category:Non-standard holiday infoboxes. – Heaven's Wrath Talk 00:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
i am not well versed in script to make these changes myself. but the current "color by type" system has been very inconvenient for me as i have worked with cross category holidays. may i suggest making a parameter to set color which is not visible as an optional control. for example, obviously st patricks should have kelly green header and hyperlinks. how would someone set that to work?Some thing 18:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Can I ask for the colour associated to Secular to be made something less dour? Something like Electric blue or Mustard would be nice. --Boreas Talk 21:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Caption font size
The caption under the image has a font size that's too darn big -- it's the same size as the overall article header (though not bolded). AnonMoos 06:35, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
