User:Thomas Blomberg/Tools

This is my collection of useful tools

My tools

 * The Wiki cheatsheet
 * User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates - for harmonising dates in an article
 * IEC for details about cinematographers
 * Template:Infobox film

Useful templates for external film references:

 * BFI Explore database
 * BFI Screenonline title
 * BFI Screenonline person
 * BBFC database
 * BFI old database titles DEAD
 * BFI old database series DEAD
 * Britmovie title
 * IMDb
 * IMDb person
 * IMDb company
 * AFI database
 * TCM database
 * Swedish Film Database database
 * Danish Film Database database
 * Rotten Tomatoes

Templates for automatic multi-column creation:

 * is placed at the top of the column. This creates 2 columns automatically. If more columns are needed, the variant
 * can be used, where the "cols" value sets the number of columns. The disadvantage with the "cols=number" solution is that the number of columns are fixed regardless of the page width used. Because of this, the following solution is probably better:
 * This creates a flexible column list based on column width: with normal page widths it creates 3 columns, but if the page is displayed widely enough it can be a 5 column list, but the more narrow the page, the fewer number of columns. "colwidth=20em" creates more columns, at standard page width 4, as the column width is more narrow. Can be ideal for short book or film title lists. "colwidth=30em" creates fewer but wider columns, with standard page width 2. Once the width is down to 1 column, the rows start to wrap if the page width is less than the set column width.
 * is placed at the end after each of the above
 * Template:Div col has more details.


 * is placed at the top of the column. The value sets number of columns. CSS styles, such as italics, can be added.
 * is placed at the end.
 * Template:Columns-list has more details

Templates for multi-column reference lists:

 * This creates the number of columns indicated after the "|", and that number remains whatever the width of the display.
 * This creates a flexible column list based on column width: with normal page widths it creates 3 columns, but if the page is displayed widely enough it can be a 5 column list, but the more narrow the page, the fewer number of columns. "colwidth=40em" creates fewer but wider columns, with standard page width 2. Once the width is down to 1 column, the rows start to wrap if the page width is less than the set column width.

Date format template:
Hidden template which tags pages that should have dmy dates, to simplify maintenance (description under Template:Use dmy dates):

Spelling templates:
Hidden template which tags that the page should have British English spelling, to simplify maintenance (description under Template:Use British English):

This is my collection of useful tools:

Size change template

 * shrinks the font size. Useful in film infoxes when adding country to distribution companies. Example:
 * Radio Pictures Ltd (UK)
 * Follows the same solution as the country field does in the  template, used in the line under distribution
 * Description under Template:Small

Solutions and templates for inline Wiki interlanguage links:
(see more at Help:Interlanguage links:
 * creates a light blue link to the Spanish Wiki: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.
 * My own variant, used both in the cast list for Patagonia (film) and in the list of famous scientists from the Dutch city of Deventer, which makes it clear that it's an interlanguage link as opposed to a link within English Wiki:
 * Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (in Spanish Wikipedia) as Alejandro (
 * Hendrik van Deventer (in Dutch Wikipedia) M.D. (1651–1724), considered the world's foremost obstetrician and gynaecologist at the time
 * creates a red link with blue language code, meaning there's no English article, but there is a Spanish one:
 * is the same template in a form that displays several language links:  returns: . First article name is the proposed English name when an English article is made, while the ones after the language codes are those used by that Wiki language version.

Table of Content templates:

 * This template moves the TOC to the right. Useful when the table is very long, especially if there are no pictures on the right side.
 * This template defaults to including only the first- and second-level headings, i.e. those numbered "1" and "1.1" in the TOC.
 * This changes the TOC display default to hidden instead of viewed.
 *   (can appear anywhere in the wikitext; suppresses the table of contents)

Template for publishing old Swedish photographs:
(although the date for press photos should probably be changed to 1 July 1969):
 * It can be found at commons:Template:PD-Sweden and en:Template:PD-Sweden and looks like this: