Template talk:Topic

Suggestion
It 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:   creates:


 * 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
Currently, 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&mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 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:  articles needing attention", and it will automatically use   if   unspecified. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 10:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Image size
Would it be possible to add an option to adjust the image size? Regards&mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 20:14, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * "Can't fix": The underlying 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




This is not an issue if the topic is a proper noun, such as Canada:

&mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 20:23, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Half and half : 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?
Can somebody account for 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 Template_limits. Regards&mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 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,  ,  ,  ,  , and so on, and then includes links to these subpages on WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Flat Regards&mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 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)
 * 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)

Overhaul
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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