Template talk:Wikispecies

Recent Changes
Currently I set the template to use the protected main page version of the logo (which appears on the sister links template).

I recently had it set to another one that looks the same, but has an invisible background intead of white.

TheLimbicOne 20:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I think we may be better off with the clear background - it does show up white against the grey, although it's not much of a contrast change if you don't have your monitor set brightly. I don't think using a protected image will matter much here.  Can you see the difference between background when it's in the template...?  If you think it's just irrelevant, it can be left either way...--  stillnotelf   has a talk page  23:38, 19 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I could just barely notice the white background on Opera. I thought the "protected" version was more likely to always be up-to-date. Change it if you think the invisible bg makes a difference on your browser. I left my invisible file on the server. Thank you for your help and input. TheLimbicOne 23:53, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

nicer looking logo
The logo on the Wikispecies home page is really nice looking. I'd like to change the logo in this template to one of the following:

1. 2. 3.  4.

TheLimbicOne 23:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Go for it! (Also Be Bold!) The last one is a little pixelly, though, do the others shrink down okay? --  stillnotelf   has a talk page  23:13, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I agree on number 4 and favor number 2. I haven't tried shrinking them yet. What size do I need to shrink to (that's why I wasn't bold)? TheLimbicOne 00:24, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, I hate to say it, but 4 is about the right size. There's not enough text in the template to justify a larger image.  I fiddled with the template without hitting the "save" button and found that 2 shrinks nicely if you just paste the file name in to the current template.  However, the text at the bottom would need to be removed before you used 2, because it becomes both redundant and impossibly small to read.  The graphic still looks nice, though.  (3 won't work well at all because of the white background, it clashes with the grey box.) --  stillnotelf   has a talk page  05:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I found their recent logo contest over at Wikispecies. Unfortunately, while there is a no text version of the file, there isn't one that doesn't have a white background.  I know precisely nothing about image editing (other than MS paint is awful).  Do you have the tools to remove the text in 2 and keep the background, or should we harass someone over at the other project to help? --  stillnotelf   has a talk page  05:08, 18 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I use Adobe Photoshop CS. Somebody commented somewhere on this site that the wiki projects don't like Adobe because it removes "transparency." It was in the context of edit histories. IMHO one program's .png file is as good as any other. I can create a "no text" version of #2 and upload it to the commons. You said it will shrink down on its own or do I need to shrink it? I sure wish somebody else would comment (it would make this feel more like a concensus). I asked the original artist (who drew both logos actually) and he hasn't commented yet. Oh well, we'll be bold and if someone doesn't like it, they'll change it back. TheLimbicOne 15:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I found another and all I can say about it is WOW (the spanish version is still WOW)! [[Image:LogoWIKISPECIES02.png]]TheLimbicOne 15:57, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Template Improvement
Wikispecies has information related to: New Look

This infobox would have a better appearance if the article name was on the same line as "related to:" and the text was vertically centered. Source Code: Wikispecies has information related to: 


 * You're right. &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 23:39, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

German link doesn't exist
As in title. Dryke 13:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki links
editprotected

Dear administrator, please replace the interwiki links by the ones in the following list:

ast:Plantilla:Wikispecies ca:Plantilla:Wikispecies cs:Šablona:Wikispecies es:Plantilla:Wikispecies fr:Modèle:Wikispecies gl:Template:Wikispecies hr:Predložak:Wikispecies hu:Sablon:Wikispecies id:Templat:Wikispecies ia:Patrono:Wikispecies ja:Template:Wikispecies ko:틀:Wikispecies lt:Šablonas:Wikispecies ms:Templat:Wikispecies nl:Sjabloon:Wikispecies nn:Mal:Wikispecies no:Mal:Wikispecies oc:Modèl:Wikispecies pl:Szablon:Wikispecies pt:Predefinição:Wikispecies ro:Format:Wikispecies simple:Template:Wikispecies sk:Šablóna:Wikispecies sl:Predloga:Wikivrste su:Citakan:Wikispecies fi:Malline:Species sv:Mall:Wikispecies vi:Tiêu bản:Wikispecies tr:Şablon:Wikispecies zh:Template:Wikispecies

The list above makes the following changes:
 * the namespace "template" is translated to the local namespace for each wikipedia
 * the link to ia is added.
 * the link to sl is changed
 * the links to de and it are removed

Thank you very much in advance, Julian 13:39, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ Done --ais523 14:58, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Request edit image replace
Since the image's SVG version looks better than the PNG version, why not replace it in this template? Althepal 20:03, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * ✅ - don't see a good reason not to. :) Nihiltres ( t .l ) 16:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Alternative format / new template - an inline version?
I could create a new template, but it might be better as an option on this one:

I would like to suggest an inline version for Wikispecies interlinking. See Exposed riverine sediments for how it might look in an article.

Possible code might be:

Available for hacking around in User:Ronnam/Sandbox/Wikispecies.

Ronnam (talk) 01:42, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * See above for description of proposed change - editprotected to try to get some comment / response. Ronnam (talk) 03:32, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

First of all, the template is not appropriate until you already have consensus for the update. I would very strongly recommend that the inline style be switched by a named parameter, meaning  rather than. In terms of style, I'd suggest something like:

Which produces:

Blah blah blah lorem ipsum random comment about frog. Blah blah blah more text

Thoughts? I can't work out how to get rid of the linebreak, which is a fairly big problem ATM, but I'm sure it can be fixed. Happy‑melon 09:15, 19 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks Happy-melon for getting back to me.


 * editprotected tag use - yer I sort of figured that, but after three weeks with not even a nibble, I thought I should do something to get some comment to get concensus. Is there another way?   How long do I wait before re 'editprotected' tagging?   Is no comment at all concensus?


 * I tried several options to get the Wikispecies logo in the rendering but none looked elegant. The line break I think is not resolvable, because the 'imagemap' tagging generates 'div' tags around the image stuff, and 'div' tags always produce a line/paragraph break when expressed by a browser?   There needs to be an option on the 'imagemap' tag to generate 'span' tags instead?


 * My preferered code would now look more like:


 * Cheers. Ronnam (talk) 23:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Clickable image
Please make it so when the Wikispecies logo is clicked, instead of going to the image description page, it goes to the corresponding Wikispecies page. It can be done as follows (you can just copy paste this code): Wikispecies has information related to:  which produces: Wikispecies has information related to:  -- penubag  (talk) 07:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Yes check.svg|20px]] Done — though I didn't use the copy/paste as I'm going through all your related suggested changes; let me know if I've missed anything. { { Nihiltres | talk | log } } 23:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

WikispeciesCompact
I have created template WikispeciesCompact, inspired from Commons:Template:WikispeciesCompact, which creates a similar link, inline and inside a small non-floating box. It could be used where the right-floating box of Wikispecies is too large or clashes with other boxes in an article.

Example: Micropsitta pusio -84user (talk) 10:25, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * First list item
 * Third list item

HTML
The syntax in all these templates should appear the same:


 * Commons
 * Commons category
 * Wikispecies

Fix174.3.110.108 (talk) 05:35, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Using secure links
Could you update this with the sandbox to ensure that secure links are used when necessary. This formatting is also used within several other sister project templates. Thanks, --The Evil IP address (talk) 21:53, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 08:32, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit request on 25 December 2012
Could you upgrade the template with the sandbox to enable the parameter "position" as in the template Commons? Thank you.

Canyq (talk) 04:19, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 09:44, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. --Canyq (talk) 17:11, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 31 December 2012
Please apply these two edits which replace sec link auto with plain interwiki links; The former is not necessary any more. These changes are not necessary, but templates in English Wikipedia are copied often to other languages.


 * (rev 530580136) to Wikispecies.
 * (rev 530580622) to Wikipedia languages

The latter does not take any parameter, so it must be clear that the edit is correct. (The changed part is the link to meta, printed "Complete list of Wikipedias".) For the former, let me place three test cases here: ,, and

Thank you very much beforehand. --Ahora (talk) 08:44, 31 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes check.svg Done. Thanks for taking the time to submit these. — Mr. Stradivarius  (have a chat) 12:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Colon
Please see request Special:Permalink/804077750. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 01:07, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 30 November 2017
Remove the colon in this line: "has information related to:" to make it standardized with Template: Commons which does not use a colon. and both requested these but the changes were not followed through.  ΤheQ Editor  Talk? 14:37, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- John of Reading (talk) 16:05, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 03:06, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Is this template superfluous in many cases?
Am I the only person who thinks this template superfluous, when the link to Wikispecies is already present in the Taxonbar? The taxonbar is usually directly below it, and as far as I can tell, is pretty much universal. Seems like overkill.

Apologies if I am missing something obvious here. Darorcilmir (talk) 21:59, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 31 January 2021
Add a period to the end of the template to make it consistent with similar templates, like Template:Commons, Template:Commons category. Generally, templates that form a full sentence end with a period (lack of one here seems to be a remnant from the last edit request). — Goszei (talk) 07:09, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:47, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Suggest Wikidata integration
At present this template assumes the WikiSpecies entry is named the same as the page. I suggest drawing from the Wikidata item in case that's not correct, to avoid this: Talk:Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. Invasive Spices (talk) 18:38, 17 April 2021 (UTC)