Template talk:Topic
Suggestion[edit]
ResolvedIt would be nice for collaboration to be included in the template. --Midnighttonight Procrastinating on uni work... 04:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Use the "collab" parameter, like so: {{topic|Canada|collab=Canada collaboration}} creates:
 | Points of interest related to Canada on Wikipedia: Outline – History – Portal – Category – WikiProject – Alerts – Deletions – Stubs – Collaboration – Assessment – To-do |
- This doesn't auto-detect, since as far as I can tell there is no naming pattern for collaboration pages. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Request[edit]
ResolvedCurrently, the parameter pna assumes that the project has a cleanup page of the type: "Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/X." Can the template be modified to optionally point to the cleanup listings generated in Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions Regards—G716 <T·C> 13:13, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
- The "Wikipedia Pages needing attention/X" stuff has been abandoned. So has Wolterbot's stuff (hasn't done anything since Mar. 2010). I've modified it so that it uses "Category:
{{{attention}}}articles needing attention", and it will automatically use{{{1}}}if{{{attention}}}unspecified. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 10:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Image size[edit]
StaleWould it be possible to add an option to adjust the image size? Regards—G716 <T·C> 20:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- "Can't fix": The underlying
{{Notice}}template doesn't support that. It would need to be upgraded first. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 10:18, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Result is dependent on the case of the input[edit]
Resolved{{topic|Film}}
| Points of interest related to Film on Wikipedia: History – Portal – Category – WikiProject – Alerts – Deletions – Cleanup – Stubs – Assessment – Style – To-do |
{{topic|film}}
| Points of interest related to film on Wikipedia: Outline – History – Portal – Category – Cleanup – Stubs – Style – To-do |
This is not an issue if the topic is a proper noun, such as Canada:
{{topic|Canada}}
| Points of interest related to Canada on Wikipedia: Outline – History – Portal – Category – WikiProject – Alerts – Deletions – Stubs – Assessment – To-do |
—G716 <T·C> 20:23, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
- Half
Won't fix and half 
Fixed: Way too much hassle to deal with installing some kind of case detector, and we're all very used to article names being capitalized, like Chocolate and Dog, as a matter of jargonistic Wikipedia-internal style. That said, there are now parameters for custom-specifying EVERYthing, so if this comes up, it'll just be manually fixed on a case-by-case basis. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 09:48, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Incomplete parsing?[edit]
ResolvedCan somebody account for Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat where only the first items are fully listed, whereas for most of the page only two items (Article – Category) get listed? __meco (talk) 12:42, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
- Your page has been automatically added to Category:Pages with too many expensive parser function calls. See Wikipedia:Template_limits#Expensive_parser_function_calls. Regards—G716 <T·C> 23:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
- You are allowed no more than 500 calls to expensive parser function calls in any one article.
{{topic}}calls "#ifexist" six times, so you cannot use this template more than ~80 times on a page. Perhaps you could split your page into[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/United States states]],[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/United States cities]],[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/Africa]],[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/Europe]],[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat/Topics]], and so on, and then includes links to these subpages on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat Regards—G716 <T·C> 05:20, 16 October 2008 (UTC)- That reads like a good idea. I'll see if I can get that implemented. __meco (talk) 06:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- Heh. Six years later and still not implemented.
Warning: This page contains too many expensive parser function calls. It should have less than 500 calls, there are now 3,559 calls.
- Let's see, 3,559 ÷ 500 = 8 (rounding up) pages that the report would need to be split into. Too much work. An easier solution is simply to make a version of {{topic}} that doesn't care about red-links, and thus has no use for the expensive "#ifexist" function. – Wbm1058 (talk) 03:06, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat now uses {{Topic links}}. That was a fair amount of work too, but now that page is a lot happier. Wbm1058 (talk) 17:43, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
- Heh. Six years later and still not implemented.
- That reads like a good idea. I'll see if I can get that implemented. __meco (talk) 06:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
- You are allowed no more than 500 calls to expensive parser function calls in any one article.
Overhaul[edit]
I've totally overhauled the code, for redundancy removal, new features (more coming as I think of them), failsafes, increased flexibility (e.g. two topics), updates for new locations for things like the "needing attention" material, and so on.— Preceding unsigned comment added by SMcCandlish (talk • contribs) 10:28, 15 August 2011
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