Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia technical issues and templates
The following discussions are requested to have community-wide attention:
| Should the editor's name be wikilinked to his article, and the location be set to New York? Chuntuk (talk) 14:53, 7 January 2016 (UTC) |
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
| As the first step to the adoption of Wikidata, I propose the following:
A. That we recognize that it is advantageous to read the information about the Commons category on Wikidata rather than to keep it locally - meaning removing the category name parameter from {{commonscat}} (in the situation Wikidata has the info) would not be considered as disruptive and can be, in principle, carried out by bot on a large scale. (I do not intend to do it myself). B. If we agree on A, there are two ways to visualize the information (note that they are not mutually exclusive): B1. To continue doing what we are already doing, i.e. using {{commonscat}}, {{commonscat-inline}}, and having the dedicated field in some specialized templates (for example, it is included in {{Infobox Russian district}}, see Rzhevsky District for an example of an application). B2. To keep the link to the category on Commons on the left panel, similarly to how it is used in Wikivoyage and some other Wikipedias, see voy:Fontainebleau for an example). PS. I am not aware of any previous discussions of this topic; I will appreciate links if appropriate. PPS. I in principle intend to advertise this as RfC, however, I would like to wait for a day for comments before adding the template - possibly the issue has been discussed already, or some good ideas will be forthcoming.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:51, 4 January 2016 (UTC) |
| There are a handful of instances where the shadowing of commons files is done deliberately, either as a placeholder to prevent poorly-named uploads (such as File:Background.jpg), or because Commons has a bizarre picture for a simple name (i.e. the widely used File:Otters.jpg which shadows Commons:File:Otters.jpg). Nevertheless, these images are tagged with {{ShadowsCommons}} and appear in Category:Wikipedia files that shadow a file on Wikimedia Commons as backlog items to be cleared.
I propose that an optional parameter, |
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