Template talk:Bibleverse

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Arimathea[edit]

Hi, Not sure what the problem is but over at Arimathea it's showing a red error, Could someone who understands this template fix this please?

I've come across this via WP:WPCleaner which lists the page as containing errors, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 14:25, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

~~"I Kings" is what it's complaining about. I'm headed out the door but adding it as a valid alternate book name will fix the issue. Primefac (talk) 14:44, 19 July 2023 (UTC)~~[reply]

I fixed Arimathea, there was no need for a Bibleverse template there anyway. Adding an alternate book name may still be useful if this is a common error. Sojourner in the earth (talk) 15:37, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks @Primefac and @Sojourner in the earth for replying and for fixing this error it's greatly appreciated,

I'll be honest I don't understand the template and didn't know where to even begin in attempting to fix it so I greatly appreciate both of your help today thank you,

Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 16:38, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, to add a bit of further mystery, I tested the same code in my sandbox and it showed no error (without any changes). I can't think of why that would be happening, so with Sojourner's fix I think I'm going to stop worrying about it. Primefac (talk) 08:10, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template no longer works properly for at least one mode, possibly many[edit]

I had reason to try to call this template recently during unrelated cleanup: Special:MobileDiff/1188429077. Turns out the version cited in the article (New International Version) is hosted at a place that must have changed their html GET structure and site contents since the template was written, because {{bibleverse|Matthew|28|niv}}, at time of writing, produces Matthew 28, which after a bit of a loading time takes me to a site called Biblica.com (expected per documentation) titled "Genesis 1 – New International Version" (not great) reading "This chapter is not available yet in this translation." (uh oh).

I don't have any particular interest in this topic area, so I haven't tested other translations or hosting services, but some work looks like it needs doing here. Folly Mox (talk) 10:50, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me. I get Matthew 28, verses 1–20 when I click on that link. Maybe just a temporary outage, or something more subtle on Folly Mox's end? – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:34, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was experiencing a similar problem when I first saw this post, but I am also now seeing "as expected" behaviour, so I suspect a search algorithm issue on Biblica's end. Which is good, because I really didn't want to rewrite the module code to accommodate it. Primefac (talk) 16:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see it in DuckDuckGo. Must be Firefox. Apologies for the false alarm 🙏🏽 Folly Mox (talk) 17:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

NWT[edit]

Would it be possible to add some of these translations as well?

American Standard Version
The Bible in Living English
The Emphasized Bible
King James Version (Red Minion)
The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1984 and 2013 Edition)

Would be handy for the Series on Jehovah's Witnesses, where none of the scriptures can be linked through {{bibleverse}} as to compare these scriptures. We made a template with all these versions linking to each version for our own wiki, which could be used here as well, but this version works with a module and ours doesn't.

Hope to hear from you soon! Kind regards, Rodejong 💬 ✉️ 13:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template produces incomplete referencing[edit]

The template outputs Book chapter and verse but does not show the bible version. GraemeLeggett (talk) 09:31, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at WP:ELN § Templates being used to embed external links into articles[edit]

You are invited to join the discussion at WP:ELN § Templates being used to embed external links into articles. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:41, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vulgata Clementina[edit]

Noting this is at Wikisource:la:Vulgata Clementina but not yet supported here; does LA WS need to do anything to make this possible? Jim Killock (talk) 19:56, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose my first question would be whether anyone is actually going to link to a Latin bible edition on enWiki (especially when we have five versions in English to link to). Primefac (talk) 20:21, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]