Commons talk:Templates

Page divide

This page needs to be split and probably reorganized. I loosely assigned the templates and many might be better classified as talk page messages to emphasize the correct placement of editor-only notes. I will probably get to it eventually, but would love some help. (with templates in general, not only their organization) - LeaMaimone 22:14, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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what do we need a page like this for? all language templates are here Schaengel89 @me 19:23, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Good point. Redundant content moved here.

Current information from Wikipedia-en. It is far from finished. Numerous templates are either not here yet or lost in the abyss that is Allpages. Commons most likely doesn't need the division that Wikepedia has, but some would be nice - at least seperating the "editor messages" from the "reader messages". And then there's standardization... I'll work on it. Please help if you'd like. -- LeaMaimone 10:53, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

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Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them. Changes to the look, wording, or style of the message can be implemented quickly, because templates are rendered for the reader when the article loads.

Note: "msg:" can now be dispensed with when placing a template in an article. For example, use {{stub}}, not {{msg:stub}}. Spaces and national characters in the name are allowed, e.g. {{train topics ąåä}}.

== Instructions ==

See also m:Template.

When you add new template messages to this page, please help keep the tables in alphabetical order.

===Multilingual tables===

• {{Tcc-side}}  language notices on Translation coordination core (edit)

===Multilingual headers===

• {{Lang-admin}}  languages on Administrators (edit)
• {{Lang-fp}}  languages on Featured pictures (edit)
• {{Lang-fpc}}  languages on Featured picture candidates (edit)
• {{Lang-fs}}  languages on First steps (edit)
• {{Lang-mp}}  languages on Main Page (edit)
• {{Lang-tcc}}  languages on Translation coordination core (edit)

=== License === For a list of licenses see the image copyright tags. These are also shown visually in Image copyright tags visual.

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New templates

I've created or revised several templates related to image cleanup. See Commons:Images for cleanup, and if necessary please update this article accordingly for me. Thanks. Deco 05:14, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Temporary subst:

I've tempoararily subst:'d one of the tags on the page to be able to remove it from Category:Images with unknown source as of unknown date 2006 while I'm clearing it out. I'll revert it back to a direct transclusion when I've finished. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 09:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Arts templates

I'm looking for that art-work information template that is used on so many pages. Also for the "creator" template for individual artists. Could these all be here, please. Cheers, JackyR 19:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Religion

For the Religion?-- Ruanda

Problem tags

Should the templates at Category:Problem tags be added to this page? Jeepday (talk) 10:40, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

They can be, although we'll need to split it up soon. I'm trying to get them all categorized first, then I was going to work on the documentation. Rocket000 (talk) 18:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Maybe a list the Categories, for now? It would make it easier to find the templates until you get the documentation completed. Jeepday (talk) 20:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Standardization

Commons:Template_standardization - your thoughts? ViperSnake151 (talk) 22:21, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Contradictory information

How do I state that an image has contradictory information? For example, Image:Finland roundel WW2 border.svg is described as both a nazi and a non-nazi swastika. Andjam (talk) 02:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:Insignia

I would like to modify Template:Insignia/layout to show a generic Coat of Arms, like the one on en-wiki (en:Template:Insignia). The proposed layout is the following:

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Are there any objections? Sv1xv (talk) 14:40, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, I edited the template and added the image, it seems it works ok. Please report any problems. Sv1xv (talk) 19:27, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

That particular image is kinda light. The older version would be better at this size. Maybe there's another image out there that would look better? Rocket000 (talk) 19:30, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Good idea, I uploaded the old image as a separate file. Here is how the template looks now:

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I also increased the size to 80px, as the template loads more lines of text than the one on en-wiki. Sv1xv (talk) 19:44, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Looks good to me. Seems a little big but if it has the text to fill it, I guess it's fine. Rocket000 (talk) 22:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Does these templates have a purpose?

User:Joshbaumgartner has creates a buch of templates Category:Aircraft image templates. In my oppinion thery are only eycandies, they don't have no value. Categories do the same, but better. Maybe we should delete this.--Avron (talk) 19:40, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I think they mostly provide interwiki links. I think it is useful. --Jarekt (talk) 19:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

We don't need interwikis on images.--Avron (talk) 19:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, these templates are useful. They help indicate aircraft types and operators in a coordinated way. But if somebody would have come to me and asked me "hey, we need some template magic for providing information on aircraft types and operators, do you have any idea?", my approach would have been completely different. I would have created a one-liner just saying "This image depicts ... XYZ". I wouldn't have provided interwiki links, cause these are just one click away at the gallery page about the operator or the aircraft type. I too would leave out the image to make the templates simple and plain. Instead of creating templates for every single type and operator I would have created exactly two templates. One for type, one for operator. Type or operator would have been an argument to the template. That would have localisation advantages. At the moment 76 templates need to be changed to localize all information. With the parametrized design this number drops to two. If languages want to use differing strings for type and operator (I guess most Latin script languages don't want to, but non-Latin most likely will) we need to create an additional subtemplate for each language that maps English type and operator names to the localised ones. But it'll still be much easier than maintaining 76 or an even more increased number of templates. --Slomox (talk) 22:18, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I created some basic templates. This is the result for an Airbus A320 and a Boeing 707 of the Egyptian Air Force:

Aircraft type InfoField	Airbus A320 aircraft Boeing 707 aircraft Military
Operator InfoField	Template:Aircraft operator

The templates support three languages at the moment:

English:

German:

Low Saxon:

What do you think? --Slomox (talk) 22:41, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I agree that interwiki links are best handled by refereeing to appropriate gallery pages with interwiki links. I also agree that 2 templates: {{Aircraft type}} and {{Aircraft operator}} are better and more easily maintained than several dozen templates. However I think those 2 templates are still to wordy. Text "Aircraft type: This image depicts an aircraft of the type: Airbus A320" would be more clear and easier to internationalize as "Aircraft type: Airbus A320". Same think with the operator. So the 2 new templates would only provide translation of the airplane name and the operator and even that might not be necessary if the gallery (one click away) have multiple translations. --Jarekt (talk) 19:26, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

The infobox and the templates are a very bad approach. I hope really that won't spread out. At first the users want to have unified information (Template:Information) in the image pages. This isn't possible when we start to provide for many topics own infoboxes. At second, images often cover several topics. For example in File:Stryker MC unloading from C130.jpg I reverted the infobox aircraft image to normal image because it depicts also an armoured fighting vehicle. I don't want to see image pages plastered with multiple infoboxes, like aircraft image, armoured fighting vehicle image, soldier image, airport image. This is a dead wrong approach. But I rally hope somedy Category intersection is made available.--Avron (talk) 19:40, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Where the content list is gone?

It would be very useful for this huge page. Is there a hidding var(tag) in a template? --Perhelion (talk) 11:52, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Is there for meWeird. Added it manually--DieBuche (talk) 15:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Template:Check?

It seems there is no "verification needed" template. But I think somethiung like this is very much needed for image desriptions. As we're working to improve image descriptions, making them more extensive, dubious information will creep in that requires fact-checking. Consider for example File:Reitter-1908 table69.jpg, image 1a. These are probably the moutparts of the female, seen from below. But I am not really sure. Until a coleopterologist comes along, the identification would be tentative, and this needs to be remarked lest we introduce errors to Wikipedia. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 14:55, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Use {{Disputed taxonomy}} or {{Fact}} --DieBuche (talk) 15:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

metadata linking

"Authority control" refers to controlled (i.e. curated, edited) list of authorities: i.e. authors of works. The issue, then, is metadata that links an image on Commons to the information about the subject in the catalogue of the relevant museum or art gallery.

Jarek is working on templates to make this metadata capture/linkage easier. If you'd like more information on this, please ask him or look at his recent changes, especially Template:Authority_control. Sumanah (talk) 19:49, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Audio Maintenance Tags

There seems to be a number of good maintenance tags for image files, but are there any for audio files? I would like to tag as being of low quality, but couldn't find a suitable tag other than {{cleanup}}. Matt Heard (talk) 21:57, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Reference books as source

Scan from the original work

Hollands Tuin
	Subtitle	De Westlandse Tuinbouw van vroeger tot nu
	Editor	Jan Barendse
	Publisher	Bond Westland
	Year of publication	1951
	Place of publication	's-Gravenzande
	Language	dutch

Hi,

I've created a scannedbooks template for a couple of scans I wanted to upload. I thought the {{Book}} template was inappropriate since the illustrations weren't first published in the books I got them from. I've used it at this file for example. The wikitext would nead some brushing up if others were to use it too, I'm posting here to see if anyone would be interested in that. --Vera (talk) 20:03, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Lovely! Should we also use the template for book covers? --Kolja21 (talk) 18:14, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

So far we used Template:Cite book for that purpose. --Jarekt (talk) 18:21, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Historic maps

I'm looking for the template that says: This is a historic map/graphic, do not change! I've seen this kind of template but can't find it anymore. --Kolja21 (talk) 18:17, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I have seen template like that for archival descriptions of photographs, but not for maps. --Jarekt (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

{{Merge}} is broken

If someone want to tackle that one: {{Merge}} template is broken, and has been broken for a while, since someone rewrote it as {{Merge}}, {{Merge from}}, and {{Merge to}}. In the current state it is unclear if the first input needs to come with or without the namespace: Some links work with one format and other links with the other. What is was is that English version is different than German, so fixing links in one breaks the other one. Good project if someone wants to learn more about the templates. --Jarekt (talk) 14:33, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Next time please notify the one who rewrote it, me. To "fix" {{Merge}}, one doesn't have to be a template syntax expert, but familiar with these languages. For more, please see Template talk:Merge#DO NOT USE.    FDMS  4    01:01, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Lua error: too many expensive function calls

FYI: Cross talk link: → Module talk:Fallback #Lua error: too many expensive function calls ↔ User: Perhelion (Commons: = crap?)  16:24, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Suggestion for a new SVG conversion icon

I hope this is the right place to offer this suggestion, which is to replace the file Converted to SVG.svg:

because

1. The circle path seems to highlight the "pixels" (which don't look satisfying either imho), but if there is something that needs to be highlighted it's more the circle path and not the pixels, I think.

2. An icon/pictograph like the one needed here is supposed to give the viewer the right impulse of its meaning at the first glance, but here it seems difficult to identify what's meant by looking at the picture only (at least to me).

Therefore I suggest to replace it by the following one, which I hope would do a more adequate job:

--Partisan1917^★ 22:38, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

@Partisan1917: This is what the {{Convert to SVG}} template looks like with your new icon:

All images in this gallery could be re-created using vector graphics as SVG files. This has several advantages; see Commons:Media for cleanup for more information. If an SVG form of this image is available, please upload it and afterwards replace this template with {{vector version available|new image name}}.

I like the idea and the use of the gradient, though the pixeled circle almost looks like a normal circle at that size. I'll try decreasing its "resolution" so it's still clearly pixeled at small sizes. SiBr₄ (talk) 09:33, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

What about this:

All images in this gallery could be re-created using vector graphics as SVG files. This has several advantages; see Commons:Media for cleanup for more information. If an SVG form of this image is available, please upload it and afterwards replace this template with {{vector version available|new image name}}.

SiBr₄ (talk) 14:26, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Beautiful improvement! I am happy my idea found a friend :) --Partisan1917^★ 11:13, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

@SiBr4: So how do we proceed now to change the template? Don't we have to put the image to a vote somewhere or something like that? --Partisan1917^★ 05:16, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

I kinda prefer the older icon, I don't know - it just looks cleaner to me. But I do agree with the highlight thing, maybe thicken the line of the vector circle and that should make it more obvious? Domdomegg (talk) 17:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

In what way "cleaner"? The "unclean" look of the "pixel graphic" is intended. --Partisan1917^★ 17:04, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Using {{SVG}} too much?

Maybe we should try to reduce the number of images classified as this, and have a rule e.g. only notify the user if it is only used on 1 user page or nothing. Otherwise it seems to be generating an impossible backlog of probably useless images. I'd like to hear what others think. I know you can sort by top 200 etc. but those often just bring up a load of icon sets which would be a pain to do if you did them one at a time, and doing them all would also be a load of effort. Maybe a images sorted by number of times used? Domdomegg (talk) 18:03, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

You know, that there are subcategories?

The backlog will stay huge, anyway. The only solution would be to pay some graphics designers to vectorize the top 200 in all categories.--Kopiersperre (talk) 18:49, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Taxonavigation Templates

I don't really speak english, but I have created the Category:Species of Gastropoda and the [[:Category::Genera of Gastropoda]] categories, but doesn't worked, like the Families of Gastropoda. Please help me. Thank you! --Patko erika (talk) 15:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

User:Liné1, may be you can help with this one. --Jarekt (talk) 15:56, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I see that you modified Template:Gastropoda. I will correct the changes you have made, because you broke other automatic categories.

Something important is that once you have done such changes, you have to wait a few days before wikicommons puts something in your automatic category.

Best regards Liné1 (talk) 21:31, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! And thanks the Bivalvia's categories too. --Patko erika (talk) 21:55, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I have one more question, could you please make some changes, to put the template the category automatically in the above category? For the example if I use the template in Category:Conus abba, then put the category in Category:Conus. Thanks! --Patko erika (talk) 22:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Sorry my friend, I did not understand your last problem.

I would prefer to talk in my discussion page.

Cheers Liné1 (talk) 07:06, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Help needed

I've put a template help request on the Village Pump where it's not getting much traction; maybe it would have been better to post it here. Schwede66 18:38, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Panorama : template with raw HTML

Hi,

we currently have issues with correctly conveying an immersive panorama (360 or even full spherical 360x180°) to the viewer. They are presented with an equirectangular view which is misleading and is not what shall be viewed.

I'd like to have a template for that:

1. it shall be based on the current panoviewer, which is based on Pannellum
2. because it's bases on pannellum, it would allow any framing and offer the possibility to drag right from the frame to move the point of view.
3. it shall fall back to a plain picture if the browser doesn't support it.

And in very short, it should be handled like how Facebook handles 360 panorama in the webpage and app (we have to keep in mind that wikipedia is viewed on mobile devices too)

So my questions :

1. Is anyone capable of writing such a template quickly?
2. if not, I can try. In that case, can we use raw html in templates? I remember raw html could be enabled or disabled and I doubt it's enabled on Commons or wikipedias.
3. In case it would be necessary, where can I get special access to wikimedia's servers to fine tune tools or plugin? I don't want to harass the maintainer of Panoviewer user:Dschwen.

Maybe this should be handled by MediaWiki software itself.

Thanks for your help - Benh (talk) 10:42, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

It sounds like {{Pano360}} we had for 8 years --Jarekt (talk) 12:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

No, that one only creates a link. I would be much better that the pano viewer can be embedded in articles - Benh (talk) 12:51, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

I see. Pannellum seems great. I hope someone can implement it. --Jarekt (talk) 13:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Interpolated images

Some images uploaded here are upscaled from lower resolution images. Unfortunately I may not be able to find the original and therefore the best I can do is tag it and hope someone comes forward with the original.

The problem is currently the closest template is blurry. While it is true that the images are blurry I believe it would be better have a new interpolated/upscaled template so these images can be identified easier. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonic12228 (talk • contribs) 21:35, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Over-sharpened images

Another possible category of images that I noticed is over-sharpened images. This when there is evident haloing caused by using too strong of an unsharp mask on an image. The solution is to upload the original. Sonic12228 (talk) 22:17, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Why do I do an edit operation when I click on “view”?

Click “view”to edit.I am requesting to change “view”to“edit”.𒁂I'm Commons^{(Tim commons)}𒁂 00:47, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Template:Published

Is it possible to add this template? Important to report use of Wikimedia Commons images. --Stunteltje (talk) 14:00, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

@Stunteltje: Sorry, we shouldn't be adding to it until the issue in #Commons:Templates#Maintenance is resolved.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 18:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

O.K. --Stunteltje (talk) 21:41, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Commons:Templates#Maintenance

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T189108

I didn't want to vandalize it, there is an error. Leonel Sohns 19:03, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

@Leonel Sohns: You broke it by exceeding a limit, "Post-expand include size 2,097,152/2,097,152 bytes". Now fix it.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 00:56, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

I suggest we separate the page into 4 subpages that don't exceed the limit, or get the limit raised.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 07:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

See also phab:T189108.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 06:11, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jeff G. and Leonel Sohns: The inclusion limits were causing templates to break and cat this page in Category:Other speedy deletions, so I've gone ahead and split the page into four subpages: Commons:Templates/Category pages, Commons:Templates/Deletion, Commons:Templates/File description pages, Commons:Templates/Maintenance. This page only has {{See}} links for now, but there might be a better way to present that. A lead paragraph on each page might also be useful. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 23:41, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

@AntiCompositeNumber: Thanks!   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 03:27, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Template:Trademark

Are you forgetting the Template:Trademark on this list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eaaaaugh (talk • contribs) 17:50, 28 December 2020‎ (UTC)

@Eaaaaugh: Sorry, we shouldn't be adding to it until the issue in #Commons:Templates#Maintenance is resolved.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 18:14, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Expansion depth limit exceeded

Files become categorized to Pages where expansion depth is exceeded; but neither there (in the category I expected an explanation, or a link to one) nor somewhere else I can find any hint about that failure. Without exact information I cannot heal the problem -- sarang♥사랑 14:47, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sarang: Please see #Commons:Templates#Maintenance above.   — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 06:12, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

How to compare text strings ?

Hello!

I am looking for a way to test 2 text strings alphabetically in template code. I want to add a parent bilateral relations category, which are in the format of e.g. Category:Relations of Bangladesh and Myanmar (note the alphabetical order: Bangladesh < Myanmar). What I would like to do is something like that:

{{#ifexpr: {{{1}}} < {{{2}}} 
   | [[Category:Relations of {{{1}}} and {{{2}}}]]
   | [[Category:Relations of {{{2}}} and {{{1}}}]]
}}

Of course this does not work, because #ifexpr compares numerical expressions, not alphabetical ones. The way I am currently doing it is (simplified):

{{#ifexist: Category:Relations of {{{1}}} and {{{2}}}
   | [[Category:Relations of {{{1}}} and {{{2}}}]]
   | [[Category:Relations of {{{2}}} and {{{1}}}]]
}}

The trouble is that if parameters are in the reverse alphabetical order (e.g. {{{1}}} is Myanmar and {{{2}}} is Bangladesh) and there is a category redirect (e.g. Category:Relations of Myanmar and Bangladesh redirects to Category:Relations of Bangladesh and Myanmar), then this code adds the redirected category instead of the target one.

Does anyone have any idea? The template in question is {{Aircraft of in category}}. Place Clichy 09:20, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Creating or requesting new File description pages

I spend a lot of time adding descriptions to image of postcards and there doesn't seem to be a good template to use for them because all of the exiting ones lack fields that are relevant to the medium. Perhaps the template for books is the closest, but it's still missing a few things. So is there some kind of process for requesting new templates? Like does there need to be a proposal involved or can just anyone make one for whatever they want to? Adamant1 (talk) 16:26, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

I need to have the option to make this template collapsable

See: {{Wikidata/FamilyTree|entityId=Q20656285|title={{Q|Q20656285}}|ancestors=3|descendants=3|compact=true|invert=1|years=|decorate=by-generation}} RAN (talk) 19:25, 5 September 2023 (UTC)