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[edit] Portal parameter

According to the project banner, the portal parameter should refer to some sub-page entry of the queue. Why are we to write just "portal=yes" to it? Shouldn't we mention the relevant subpage as well? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I was not sure how the portal pages were organized. So just linked it to general pages. Please provide an example and I can update the template accordingly. - Ganeshk (talk) 17:05, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Have a look at Selected content summary page that I created for the Selected articles on Portal:India. It links to the summary of all the articles under WP:PINSA. A convenient way to find when an article was last featured/will be featured is to see the last parameter in the bracket, which is the last date of featuring. In fact, this also provides a convenient way to find out all the days in which the given article came on the portal page: just click "what links here" from the summary page of any article. The trouble is almost all articles have been once featured, the exception being for those selected very recently or those for whom a working summary is absent. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing redundant templates

I have identified the following templates that have become redundant after the addition of {{WP India}}:

  • {{WikiProject Indian cities}}
  • {{WikiProject Indian states}}
  • {{WikiProject Indian districts}}
  • {{WikiProject Politics of India}}
  • {{Wikiproject History of India}}
  • {{Old India COTW}}

We can also deprecate the Indian portal related templates if we are able to integrate the infomation present in it with this template.

Is it okay to remove the above mentioned templates while adding the {{WP India}} template? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 07:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I had done it here. I feel the same. Too many templates make the talk page cluttered. The new template mentions them anyway. - Ganeshk (talk) 16:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
There might be a problem. For example, WikiProject Indian cities prescribes guidelines (MoS, etc.) for the article. Replacing the template would make the guidelines virtually inaccessible to new users. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Addition of other Wikiprojects in the templates

I have added a couple of other Wikiprojects in the template. They are "Wikiproject Indian cinema" and "Wikiproject History of India". I wanted to know whether we should add all India related Wikiprojects to the template. What about those that are closely related but not completely related (like Wikiproject Hinduism)? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Usage of portal parameter

Why does the portal paramater has to be used in conjuction with "class=FA" only. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

It does not have to to be used only with FA. It can be used by itself. Most FAs do get posted on the portal. So you see them all tagged. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I fixed the code so that it does not look for FA. Thanks for pointing that out. - Ganeshk (talk) 00:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reg: Assessment

(copied from User_talk:Ganeshk) Hi Ganesh,

Even as I was assessing the articles, I got into a dilemma. I thought it would be great to categorise the assessed articles by month (say, Categories: India Articles Quality Assessed in Oct 2006), so that we can go back to that category sometime later (may be three months) and reassess the article again.

I wanted to include a date stamp as well in the assessment section of the WP India Template, saying This article was rated -Class according to assessment criteria on so-and-so date.

I tinkered around with the WP India template to do both these tasks, i.e., categorising, and time-stamping. It should be small add-on only, yet, I wasn't sure about the naming conventions for the parameters expected in the Template, as well as how a change in the template will affect the current usage.

Could you help me fix them into the WP India template?? It would help very much in systematic assessment and re-assessment. Cheers -- Chez (Discuss / Email) • 22:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

That's a nice idea. I have not seen any other projects do that. Let me work on it and come up with a prototype. I will post here. -- Ganeshk (talk) 23:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Chez, I am ready with a prototype. Let me know if it's good. The template adds articles to the category, [[Category:India articles assessed in Month Year]].

Usage:

{{WP India|class=A|importance=Low|assess-date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}


Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 03:35, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

It is really good. Please implement it yourself. Cheers -- Chez (Discuss / Email) • 05:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I will implement it now. -- Ganeshk (talk) 05:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

There is a slight error in the template. When the parameter "peer-review=yes" is added to the template the red link that it generates is of the form [[:Article name|request has been made]]. The colon shouldn't be there. I think this line - A '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Peer review/{{ARTICLESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|request has been made]]''' - in the template coding is to blame. Can someone fix it? - Aksi_great (talk) 20:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blank lines at top

This template produces blank lines above it. You can see this at the top of this page (removing the blank line between templates does not remove the space), and it is somewhat unappealing. Another editor referred to the "unsightly space" in Talk:History of saffron. This space can be removed by combining some lines early in the template. If the beginning of the template, currently

{{#ifeq:{{{literature|}}}|yes|
{{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}}
{{!}}-
{{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian literature]]
{{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|WikiProject Indian literature]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian literature. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|project page]]''}}.
{{!}}}
}}
{{#ifeq:{{{cinema|}}}|yes|
{{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}}
{{!}}-
{{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian cinema]]
{{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|WikiProject Indian cinema]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian cinema. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|project page]]''}}.
{{!}}}
}}

is replaced with

{{#ifeq:{{{literature|}}}|yes|{{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}}
{{!}}-
{{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian literature]]
{{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|WikiProject Indian literature]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian literature. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|project page]]''}}.
{{!}}} }}{{#ifeq:{{{cinema|}}}|yes|{{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}}
{{!}}-
{{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian cinema]]
{{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|WikiProject Indian cinema]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian cinema. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|project page]]''}}.
{{!}}} }}

it seems to fix it at least for the four possible combinations of literature and cinema. Gimmetrow 18:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Gimmetrow 20:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Typos

It says in the explanation that you use tamilnadu to say an article has something to do with WikiProject Punjab. — Nobleeagle [TALK] [C] 06:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I fixed it. — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 10:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Someone add importance scale for WP:WINDPA

Someone pls. add importance scale for WP:WINDPA. Amartyabag TALK2ME 05:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replacing an image

Image:Crystal 128 kdmconfig.png is gonna be deleted soon from the Wikimedia Commons as a duplicate of Image:Crystal 128 kuser.png. I'd appreciate it if someone could replace the former with the latter in the template. Yonatan talk 13:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for the notification.--thunderboltz(TALK) 14:43, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, that was much quicker than I thought it'd be. :P Yonatan talk 14:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nesting fix

Replace the contents of this template with the sandboxed version at User:Disavian/Sandbox/WP India. The change is that most nested templates tell you the article class while they are nested; currently, this template does not. For a demonstration of the change, see User talk:Disavian/Sandbox/WP India. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 05:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I have implemented this change. Thanks for the suggestion. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 05:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Tricolor.png

{{editprotected}} I've created Image:Tricolor.svg to replace Image:Tricolor.png. And seriously? a WikiProject Template totally disabled from editing by established users? Regardless, I notice that you folks seem to know how to fix the nesting problem that arises with the show/hide things. I'd like to do that with {{WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth}} if anyone who knows how to do it has time... -- drumguy8800 C T 17:59, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I changed the images. The protection is more or less standard for templates that are included in a lot of pages, but you could make an argument at WP:RFPP if you would like it to be unprotected. You should ask at Wikipedia:Requested templates about fixing the nesting issue. CMummert · talk 18:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image replacement request

{{editprotected}} Please replace the image Image:Nuvola apps kcontrol.png with Image:Icon tools.png as it was marked as a duplicate on Wikimedia Commons. The image is protected there. Thanks. Siebrand 19:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 20:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] we need a "television" notice

Since WikiProject Indian television is the newest workgroup, we need a notice template like WikiProject Indian cinema has. - Bhavesh.Chauhan 19:00, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal link

Please add {{Portal|India}} to the template, directly before the text "This article is within the scope..." Thanks, Cirt (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC).

It's in the template code but commented out. Was it removed for a reason? Gimmetrow 15:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
  • I don't know, but many other WikiProject templates give a link to the relevant associated portal in the WikiProject template. It helps to organize coordination between both the WikiProject and the Portal of the exact same topic.

Please place {{editprotected}} with your request rather than the top of the page. Since there seems to be a question of whether this should be included, I have N Not done this for now. I have directed people at Portal talk:India and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India to this section. —Random832 17:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

  • I was going to add it (and in the right spot...), but then I saw it was already there, commented out. I just wanted to know why it was commented out, but I guess I'll have to dig through archives and diffs and figure that out myself. Gimmetrow 19:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
    • After all the subproject texts, there is
      <!--{{portalpar|India}}-->
    • This should be replaced with:
      {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||{{portalpar|India}}}}
    • The portal link would otherwise clutter the small form. Gimmetrow 19:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)


  • I had removed the portal link to save space on the box, was trying to hide as much as I can to make the box smaller. As Thunderboltz points out above, many portals (within India project scope) may apply for a particular topic. Displaying the root one alone is not helpful IMO. Other projects don't display them too. Would like to know your thoughts. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 04:35, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I figured it probably had to do with the multiple subportals. OK with me. Gimmetrow 04:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update the Vote.png image

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Could the Vote.png image in the template be changed to the updated version: Vote.svg? Thanks! ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by It Is Me Here (talk • contribs) 20:34, March 13, 2008 (UTC)

Y Done - Nihiltres{t.l} 03:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments by date

Hi, this looks like the only project going around keep tracks of assessments by date. I really don't think that's particularly helpful as Category:India articles assessed by month is obviously missing a number of years. I would really suggest changing the template so that all the assessed article are in place, keeping the parameter and letting someone get a bot to figure it out fairly. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It's purpose was to allow for revisiting the articles at a later time to revise the assessment. It is done manually by adding the "assess-date" parameter. Not sure why you want the template to be changed, since a bot could be written to fill the gaps. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 22:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)