User talk:Wikid77/Archive 11

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Happy New Year
I heard what happened to your fireworks last night. I wish you better luck this New Year. Caballero// Historiador   ☊  16:31, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Date formats
Hi Wikid77, just in case you did not notice, date=04/12/2001 means 4 December 2001 in Scotland (and more generally in the UK). Best regards -- KlausFoehl (talk) 09:46, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Borders_Railway&diff=prev&oldid=699703738
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Borders_Railway&diff=next&oldid=699703738

RKO
Thanks for fixing that for me. Just went to do it after getting the bot notification. Appreciate it.  Onel 5969  TT me 01:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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Question
HI. I'm enjoying our conversation on Jimbo's page. I have a question for you: Why do we have bots that do this? I learned  and ,  and  and Wikipedia is one of the few places I can use it! :). All those single quotes look awful and are so confusing.  What is the advantage?  I just use the html codes and let it fix them rather than trying to remember if I am supposed to use 2, 3 or 5 of the single quotes, since it is faster for me.  But I do worry that maybe it messes something up. I'm hoping there is a good explanation for it.  --David Tornheim (talk) 11:12, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the MediaWiki software has always used 5 tics around bold-italic text, but the wp:CS1 templates generate interim HTML "&lt;i>" tags to italicize any title, including end-apostrophe as in "Livin' and Givin' " or such. Even worse the template parameters are coded as triple-brace "" which confuses with a template's double-brace syntax "}}" where parameters could become "#[x]" as an alternate syntax to improve readability of markup. Jimbo installed the original wiki software to turn dismal Nupedia into successful Wikipedia and probably remembers, if not afraid to discuss. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:00, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Diffs for long lines
You might be interested in "Investigate increasing limit for word-level diffs" apparently there is 10K byte limit before word rather than paragraph level diff's kick in. --Salix alba (talk): 04:24, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

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new pays per day -- Sweden off the charts for Jan. 2016
I was looking at the wiki-data for new articles per day and Sweden was off the charts for Jan. 2016 with 12,000 per day. Do you know if that has been fixed and if the appropriate admins. know about it? I'm guessing it is some kind of spam... --David Tornheim (talk) 07:54, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the Swedish WP has been doing a Bot-upload of species pages; as Sweden has the highest per-capita robotics society in the world, it was just a matter of time for them to mass automate new articles. -Wikid77 (talk) 08:24, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

One more question on data, since I am here already:  Do you know what is going on with this website that used to track page views on wikipedia articles? It seems that it stopped collecting data on 1/21/16. Is there a better one now? --David Tornheim (talk) 08:00, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * That was User:Henrik, who has been taking 3-month breaks for years, and might restore the missing weeks upon his return. -Wikid77 (talk) 08:24, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Question about edits and edit summary on Atayalangal
Hi Wikid77. I noticed [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Atayalangal&diff=prev&oldid=708854293 this] edit with this edit summary at Atayalangal:

Ping me back. Cheers! 20:24, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) What are the 20 changes?
 * 2) Where is the copy edit?
 * 3) Where is the fix cite for 2nd date & pre-spaced cite bars?
 * 4) What was the purpose of any of these changes?
 * 5) Why are you deleting unused citation parameters?
 * , most of the 20 changes were spaces between the cite parameters, but also changed 2nd date to be "access-date=" and removed unused "author=" and "date=" to focus on parameters which are used, not unused. The unused parameters tend to clutter the markup and would bog a search for actual "author" where used. The copy-edit also removed space in name "M. G. Sasi" to be "M.G. Sasi" without the peculiar space between the initials. -Wikid77 (talk) 23:02, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Wikid77. Good call on changing the 2nd date= to accessdate=


 * However, IMHO, if names have spaces they should be left. This is customary. For instance:


 * M. C. Escher, J. R. R. Tolkien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.


 * You may notice that for M.G. Sasi he is M. G. Sasi in the lead and in the infobox.


 * Unused citation parameters should be left intact unless they are deprecated or excessive. date= and author=, even if blank, should be left in place for a cite news or cite web template as this metadata may become available to a future editor and then they can pop it right in there. Cheers!  00:02, 16 March 2016 (UTC)


 * @ - I disagree on both counts. Spaces between initials are fine for titles, standard form and all that, but it is not the convention for the small type within the body of an article, or a book, or a newspaper article, or a website. It is a peculiar affectation. Bear in mind that links should not be broken to tighten up the initials. As for deleting the ridiculous clutter of unused fields in info boxes and citation templates, this is, as Wikid indicates, beneficial for future editors. In a just world citation templates would be banned outright since they are nearly impossible for new editors to navigate. Anything to make the editing process for new editors less burdensome is for the good. Best regards, — Tim /// Carrite (talk) 15:51, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi . I was not addressing you, but since you're here I shall reply to you. I think you need to read this thread again. I am the one that said leaving the author= and date= parameters in place is helpful for future editors. You seem to have synthesized our comments. Also, let me highlight for you: Unused citation parameters should be left intact unless they are deprecated or excessive. Leaving author= and date= in place is not excessive, but is helpful. As for spaces between initials in names and after the full stops the Chicago Manual of Style requires it, but on Wikipedia we only ask that you be consistent in an article; once the style is set, stick with it, regardless of your personal preference, bias, or how silly you think it looks. As for citation templates being "ridiculous", what is your alternative suggestion for preventing linkrot and providing harvestable metadata? What is an easier and better citation method new editors? Cheers!  16:19, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

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Access dates prior to the start of Wikipedia
Do not "fix" access dates that are from prior to Wikipedia's start date. Especially, do not "fix" anything without actually fixing the problem. Thanks. --Izno (talk) 16:24, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

YHWH
personal name.—Ps 83:18.Correct Pronunciation of the Divine Name. “Jehovah” is the best known English pronunciation of the divine name, although “Yahweh” is favored by most Hebrew scholars. The oldest Hebrew manuscripts present the name in the form of four consonants, commonly called the Tetragrammaton (from Greek te·tra-, meaning “four,” and gramʹma, “letter”). These four letters (written from right to left) are יהוה and may be transliterated into English as YHWH (or, JHVH — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CD90:F30:D441:E190:47C9:9959 (talk) 00:41, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

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Empty bold tags
Hi! I'm just wondering if you remember why you used empty bold tags like &lt;b/>, for example in this edit. Also, do you know if you used such tags in other templates, and do other authors do it too? Apparently it breaks our prototype solution for T89331 so I'm trying to work out whether we need to implement a fix. -- Tim Starling (talk) 23:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Editors have been using null tags for years like "&lt;b/>" or "&lt;span/>" (beyond null nowiki, "&lt;nowiki/>") as escape-tokens to allow lead/trailing-spaces or leading semicolon ";" with only 4-to-7-character tokens rather than the 40-to-80-character nowiki tags, to avoid extra bytes in each template, with the wp:expansion depth limit "wp:post-expand include size" being only 2,000 kb rather than 2.5 mb or more. -Wikid77 (talk) 17:55, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * So it's a workaround for T14974? (Implicit newline insertion before * # : ; {|) Obviously   is the "right" way to do that, I guess (if we can't think of something better) -- I wonder if there's anyway to tell how many pages would really be broken (read, exceed the expansion depth limit) by replacing   with  ?  Perhaps we could bump the limit from 2MB to 2.5MB at the same time as we get rid of the hack? C. Scott Ananian (talk) 19:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't know how many pages use null-bold or null-span tags, among the current 5 million articles, but the massive wp:CS1 Lua cite templates, each, use about 2kb[!] of expansion space of the "wp:post-expand include size" to mega-hog, mega-waste the resource, and pages have been hackified smaller for years, such as "List of The Simpsons episodes" to fit the include-size limit. I don't think ruining pages matters any longer, as so many editors are ready to hackify the next oversized page, and users are accustomed to seeing 50,000 botched pages scarred with cite wp:reftag or other cite red-error messages. Just improve the wp:parser functions, and many editors will update more botched pages, as the coming months permit, among 50,000 other pages botched by templates. Keep up the improvements, and the wiki-gnome editors will further adjust thousands of pages as needed. Thanks. -Wikid77 (talk) 02:24, 4 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Wikid, please give a specific example of a page that nowiki instead of b would push over the limit. I doubt any actually exist. Jackmcbarn (talk) 20:31, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Many editors are working to hackify large pages as smaller. There have been over 450 pages in "Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded". It is difficult to keep aware of the thousands of botched pages for all the various problems. -Wikid77 (talk) 02:24/02:29, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
 * In that case, this "solution" is completely unnecessary, as it's not even solving the right problem: making the expansion size smaller doesn't help pages where the depth is too high. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:47, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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A bit confused
I didn't really understand the relevance of your comment at Jimbo's page. My feeling is that a bit of "Second Amendment" editing, like describing the manufacture of a sutari or W-18, helps to put the general populace in a stronger position relative to gangs and governments. Hopefully, without needing to be used, or even preparing people to resist its use; but if it is, it is their moral choice what to do. As for prophecy, well, I would distinguish it from precognition. I would say prophecy emerges from a deep understanding of the world, and does not recall the future, but perceives inevitability. Martin Luther King Jr. saying "I have a dream..." is prophecy. Even Isaiah writing (I would rather optimistically argue) about the Red Sea Dam development providing a new homeland for the Palestinians might be a prophecy. But to remember the future as it is rather than as it is meant to be ... that's altogether on the other side of the equation, a soul-eroding thing with unpredictable dangers and precious little good that can come out of it. (I don't believe Dixon manifested any of these things...) Wnt (talk) 23:29, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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Cvt template
I regard as a very useful variant; I wish I'd come across it before. Please don't use its to try to fight battles over it. All that will happen if you do is that those who want to delete the template will succeed. The documentation needs to explain how to use the template, not put off potential users by showing that it's contoversial. I want this template to remain! Peter coxhead (talk) 15:43, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

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Jimbo's talkpage
As someone who is half Italian by birth, the revolting stuff you keep putting on Jimbo's talkpage appalls me. Stop it now please, or next time it's going to WP:ANI. Laura Jamieson (talk) 22:44, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, as someone who has lived in Italy for years, I do not understand your concerns about what I wrote. Could you please clarify which aspects of my posts do you think are "revolting" or have appalled you. -Wikid77 (talk) 22:50, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the link I provided on Jimbo's talkpage to your previous posting is enough. Laura Jamieson (talk) 23:06, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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Question about software to deal with multiple references
Hi. I know you are long time programmer and Wikipedia editor. I have come up against a challenge and curious if you know if we already have software to deal with it. The problem is when there are multiple references to be combined. I figured out long ago that you use ... for the first instantiation, and then ... for each additional instance of it.

The question is what to do when you have a block of text with 20 references and you want to make two copies of the entire block in the article, and have the second copy's references all refer to the first, but you do not want to have to go in and change all 20 references by hand. We have that case because of the result of an RfC. Each copy has to be the exact same text and references.

I asked the question at the articles at these two places: Talk:Genetically_modified food controversies, Talk:Genetically_modified food. Despite the fact that 88 people showed up to comment at this high stakes RfC, no one has responded to this!

This brings up another bigger question: I have noticed many articles have multiple instances of the same reference, often with slight variations (e.g. author's first name spelled out, or not, or items in wrong order, missing url in one, etc.). I assume it is because different editors contributed to the article and did not realize the reference was already there or they did not know how to use the citation templates, etc. It seems to me we could use a bot to go through the references in every article and look for duplicates with the goal of consolidating/simplifying. I doubt the bot could fix them directly unless all info. was clearly identical, but it could at least identify the redundancy and then if we have a tool to make it easy to fix redundancy, that would be excellent. I already feel like I could write such a thing in C or Perl using just the Wikitext. I have no idea what language the bots use. What do you think?

I did do a list of all the references that had name instantiations or instances for Genetically modified food controversies and it was interesting:
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 * 11) money.cnn.com
 * 12) Monsanto_US_retaliation
 * 13) MonsantoEnforcement /
 * 14) MonsantoEnforcement
 * 15) NatlGeo
 * 16) NatureEd
 * 17) NatureOnSeralini2012/
 * 18) NatureOnSeralini2012
 * 19) Nelson/
 * 20) Nelson
 * 21) Netherwood2004
 * NPR
 * 1) NRC2004 /
 * 2) NRC2004
 * 3) NYT2016
 * 4) NYT82413
 * 5) nytimes
 * 6) nytimes1
 * 7) NYTImes2012
 * 8) NYTimesQuest/
 * 9) NYTimesQuest
 * 10) oecd.org/
 * 11) oecd.org
 * 12) OECD
 * 13) oregon/
 * 14) oregon
 * PEW
 * Pew
 * 1) Pew2005 /
 * 2) Pew2005
 * 3) Pew2006
 * 4) PGEconomics
 * 5) PHAA/
 * 6) PHAA
 * 7) pmid10500236
 * 8) pmid10524614
 * 9) pmid10537097
 * 10) pmid10537098
 * 11) pmid10580485
 * 12) pmid11559842
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 * 31) pmid20929774
 * 32) pmid21301431
 * 33) pmid21338670
 * 34) pmid21350035/
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 * 36) pmid22155268
 * 37) pmid22753493
 * 38) pmid22864609
 * 39) pmid23605378
 * 40) pmid8594427
 * 41) PollackStarlink/
 * 42) PollackStarlink
 * 43) Pollan
 * 44) PostCourier/
 * 45) PostCourier/
 * 46) PostCourier
 * 47) PotatoPro
 * 48) Prescott2005
 * 49) Puztai1999/
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 * 51) Randerson2008
 * 52) reasons
 * 53) ReferenceA
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 * 56) retract
 * 57) RetractionWatch
 * 58) ReutersIowa /
 * 59) ReutersIowa
 * RT4
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 * 2) Schubert
 * 3) SciAm
 * 4) Seattle
 * 5) Seralini2007
 * 6) Seralini2009
 * 7) Seralini2011
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 * 9) Seralini2012
 * 10) Sewell-India /
 * 11) Sewell-India
 * 12) Sheldon
 * 13) Shermer
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 * 16) Stutz
 * 17) SupremeCourt
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 * 21) TheTimes2016
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 * 26) ToxSoc2003/
 * 27) ToxSoc2003
 * TWP
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 * 2) UC-ANR8180/
 * 3) UC-ANR8180/
 * 4) UC-ANR8180
 * UCS
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 * VDC
 * 1) WalkerSeeds
 * 2) Waltz/
 * 3) Waltz
 * 4) WASCsummary/
 * 5) WASCsummary/
 * 6) WASCsummary/
 * 7) WASCsummary/
 * 8) WASCsummary/
 * 9) WASCsummary
 * 10) web.ebscohost.com
 * 11) WeedControlFreak
 * 12) WELL
 * 13) Wesseler-2005
 * 14) Who Owns Nature? p14
 * why
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 * 2) whybiotech.com
 * 3) Zerbe2004

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 * The 2 blocks of text can have the same 20 cites as 20 named wp:reftags, and only those 20 will be listed (once) under "References" as each double-linked "a b"; however, the spacing of each cite must be identical between the 2 blocks of text. There is no need to combine all duplicate cites, as in fact it can be better when text needs to be deleted or moved into another page, where other text using the same cites has complete copies of those cites. Long term, many thousands of pages need to be split (or "un-merged") to reduce pages to simple encyclopedic topic versus "history of " or lists of people, books, songs (etc.) about that topic. Having several, major cites duplicated could help simplify those page splits. As for cites duplicated several times, I would avoid bots but let the many wp:wikignomes edit those pages because they seem to like such work, as compared to rewriting text or expanding pages with new content or better sources. Many users truly enjoy simple, repetitive work, or hiking edit-count, and would nitpick some other small details if bots fixed cites too much. For users who can write complex bots, their time would be better spent by (re)writing main mega-pages such as "Cogito ergo sum" or "Plato's Academy" or "Jennifer Lopez" to improve pages read millions of times rather than fix minor details in the unseen wikitext. By contrast, bots tend to be twisted to perform "hypercorrection" such as forcing rare dashes into text phrases where hyphens have been used for decades or centuries, as in ranges "A-Z". -Wikid77 (talk) 23:56, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:39, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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Seems to have worked, at least for the time being. Timothy Joseph Wood 00:29, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hello, wikid77. I'm just curious about your edit to Sci-Hub. You changed to. That got rid of the error message, but how did you determine that ":0" was the correct reference? Looking at reference ":0", it doesn't seem to contain any material that would back up the statement that it's supposed to be referring to. Thanks for your attention. --Akhooha (talk) 21:33, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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Automated taxonomy system errors
Hi, as you created the top levels of the system (e.g. Template:Taxobox/taxonomy/ex3) you may be able to help with a current problem. If you look at Template:Taxonomy/Abavornis, it shows up as in error, and it doesn't display the topmost levels of the taxonomic hierarchy. This seems to be a depth problem, since working upwards Template:Taxonomy/Euenantiornithes has the same problem, but the problem disappears at Template:Taxonomy/Enantiornithes. The error is causing almost all the entries in Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color. I can't see why it has apparently suddenly appeared; something must have changed somewhere but I can't find it to revert it. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:11, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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B-Dienst Copy edit
Hi @Wikid77, thanks for that copy edit on B-Dienst, it really needed it. But you've horsed two references in the process. The |volume= attribute doesn't work on the cite web template, so in this case putting in the volume attribute just horses the location of the document, making it unfindable in this instance, within the NSA. It's just disappears the document that the ref is pointing too and its used over the shop in the article. You need to check that refs are good, before moving on. Scope creep (talk) 00:19, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Found this on cite web:

Quite recent, no wonder it's not working. Scope creep (talk) 00:26, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for reminding me that {cite web} since July 2016 now ignores "volume=" (and "issue=") which I keep forgetting because computer software completely ignoring valid parameters is so unbelievably MEGA-BROKEN that I would teach it as a mandatory concept in school class Computer Moron 101, how to ruin software in the worst ways possible. Please understand that when I rewrote cite_web into Lua script, I would never in a 1,000 years have imagined anyone would purposely break parameters in such a convoluted, twisted manner. However, thank you again, for reminding me how the ignore-volume wiki-nightmare is a real trainwreck that must be fixed ASAP. In fact, multi-volume PDF webpages are very common as {cite_web} links. -Wikid77 (talk) 03:57, 22 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Happened to see this thread. Re-cast the citation in question as:


 * and lo and behold you get:
 * I'm certainly not defending all the changes that have been made to the citation templates, but there is a logic involved in this one: the material cited merely happens to be held on the website of nsa.gov. It's very different from, say, the GRIN Taxonomy for Plants website, which is designed and maintained as a web-based resource. So if you want to identify where the material is located, via is better than website – the latter is an alias of work. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:41, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I see your point. Its a one size fits all solution, and it doesn't have any way to represent hierarchy in the way the some documents archives are arranged e.g. NSA, British Archive at Kew, for instance, the sort of military way of doing it, an archive within an archive within a folder on web entry. Do you teach software? Lua is a bit after my time. I'll put it in. It was real ugly, the way it read. I have a couple of other articles with a similar type, which will now be fixes. Thanks. Scope creep (talk) 18:49, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I see your point. Its a one size fits all solution, and it doesn't have any way to represent hierarchy in the way the some documents archives are arranged e.g. NSA, British Archive at Kew, for instance, the sort of military way of doing it, an archive within an archive within a folder on web entry. Do you teach software? Lua is a bit after my time. I'll put it in. It was real ugly, the way it read. I have a couple of other articles with a similar type, which will now be fixes. Thanks. Scope creep (talk) 18:49, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

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Taxonomy templates
You've edited these and I need some help. Due to a recent edit request, I traced an interesting challenge from the Common raven species box, which gives two classes, Aves and Reptilia, for the raven (this is also true for many other birds). I know there has been ongoing controversy about "birds as dinosaurs as reptiles"; however, I don't believe it is correct to show birds in two different taxonomy classes. It appears that it can be traced to Template:Taxonomy/Aves, which shows Aves at the bottom of the ancestral taxa box, several clades above it, and then "class: Reptilia", more clades until the "Superclass: Tetrapoda" is seen. I looked into the Taxonomy key template and started digging, and so far the most recent edit I've found is your 17 Sept. edit to Taxonomy links/cell, which doesn't seem to have any effect to correct the double-class problem. Anyway, I'm presently at a loss to find a solution to this and could really use your help. Thank you in advance for any help you can give!  Paine  u/ c  23:12, 30 September 2016 (UTC)


 * This is currently being discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life There are ways to solve the problem, but there needs to be a consensus that for bird taxoboxes it's Aves that is treated as a class, not Reptilia. So far I judge that not enough editors have commented to be sure that this is so. Peter coxhead (talk) 01:00, 1 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you, but I think it should be the other way around. There should have been a consensus before the confusing situation of allowing two classes for birds in all their species boxes was allowed in the first place.  Those boxes should be immediately changed to reflect just one class for birds as reflected at all the sources I've read: "Class: Aves".  Thank you again, and I've left my 2 cents in the discussion you linked.   Paine   u/ c  18:38, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, I understand why back in 2012 you created. However, it did create a continuing anomaly in the automated taxobox system. The cells shown in the right-hand side table in a taxonomy template (such as e.g. ) have the rank name displayed via. The cells shown in an article using an automated taxobox (such as e.g. Amaurobius) have the rank name displayed via. Unless these two templates are kept strictly in step, the display can be different, e.g. the rank name having parentheses round it in one, but not the other, or being italicized in one, but not the other. I've recently edited to try to keep them in step (e.g. unranked_ordo previously resulted in different output in the two places), but the code duplication continues to bother me. However, if were altered to use, it might cause template expansion depth problems again.

Any thoughts? Peter coxhead (talk) 10:01, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * In a case like this, it might be enough to just cross-document the need to coordinate changes between the related templates. Otherwise, the wp:expansion depth limit is a very severe problem, even causing Template:Documentation to exceed depth when showing some /doc pages. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:59, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I thought that might be the case; I put notes on the /doc pages of the two templates; maybe there should also be an HTML comment in case a template editor doesn't read the documentation. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:59, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

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Expansion depth error in taxonomy template
Template:Taxonomy/Brachiopoda/? (and hence the taxonomy templates with it as an ancestor) shows up as having exceeded the expansion depth, I think because of the use of taxon?. I believe this is something you know how to fix. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:57, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Documentation of taxonomy "short cuts"
Hi, is there any documentation for the logic behind the "short cuts" you've used to get round the expansion depth limit (e.g. at Template:Taxonomy/Dinosauromorpha)? If not, can I ask you to write some? Peter coxhead (talk) 17:41, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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Template nesting limit is effectively 20
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Automated taxoboxes and Lua
Hi, just thought I'd let you know that I'm working on what seems to be by far the best solution to expansion depth limit problems. This is to rewrite the parts of the code that traverse the taxonomic hierarchy in Lua. It avoids completely the need to have multiple templates with nesting (like the  family for example). You just write loops! The expansion depth drops dramatically, and hierarchies of 100+ levels should be no problem.

Lua is so much easier! Using the template language, it took me about 3 days solid work to reduce the expansion depth needed to find the taxobox colour. It took me about 20 minutes to re-do it in Lua, and I'd never used the language before.

So far I've created Lua versions of the traversals needed to find the taxobox colour and to generate the table shown on the "Taxonomy/TAXON" pages. The final step is the traversal needed for the taxoboxes themselves. It looks straightforward, although it's necessary to work slowly, in view of the number of pages that would be affected by any error.

When converting traversals to Lua is finished, we should be able to restore the original behaviour of same_as and some of the other bits of the system that were disabled as part of fixes to reduce expansion depth. We shouldn't need hardcoded or /skip templates purely to reduce the number of levels.

Ultimately I think that most of the automated taxonomy system can be moved to Lua, leaving only the raw data stored in the taxonomy templates, since this format is much easier for most editors to set up and modify.

If you're interested, Module:Autotaxobox/sandbox will have the latest version. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:33, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * @Peter: The Lua script is powerful, but unfortunately, not portable to other wikis which use only the core MediaWiki software (as those users have reminded us). Meanwhile, I thought the plan was to reduce the taxonomy depth by using major taxon levels, to skip minor clades, and not encourage excessive clades by making it easier to have taxon depths over 100. Switching to Lua is the wrong solution, while ignoring the solution to set major taxon levels, but such is common when people find new computer tools and forget prior design decisions. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:01, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Firstly, as has been shown several times, the automated taxonomy system is difficult to port to other wikis: because of the number of templates involved, the frequency with which they change, the number of detailed decisions about what ranks and levels to display that are built in to the system that aren't accepted elsewhere, the different taxonomies preferred elsewhere. Another major issue, as I found when I tried to help on the Basque Wikipedia, is the frequency with which key parts of the system are changed as problems crop up, and the complexity of re-implementing these. These problems aren't going to go away.
 * Secondly, yes, we could have introduced "majorparent", and I thought it was the answer. I started planning how to implement it. However, I quickly realized that it introduces problems of its own, similar to the hardcoding you introduced and similar to /skip templates. Who picks the "majorparent" taxa? On what criteria? How can you understand and edit taxonomies when some parts of the system skip bits of them and others don't? Who decides how far up a hierarchy to follow "parent" and when to switch to "majorparent"? If we allow editors to decide article by article, as I think they will demand, in the same way that they can choose how many ancestors to display (i.e. we have a parameter that sets how many "parent" links are followed before "majorparents" are) then depth problems can't be prevented. If we don't allow this, then there will be conflicts over where to put "majorparent" links. (And, of course, selecting whether to follow "parent" or "majorparent" itself introduces extra expansion depth, making the allowable hierarchy even shallower.)
 * The truth is that the template language is totally unsuited to coding the traversal part of the automated taxobox system. I spent 3-4 days solidly working on the colour setting system, and managed to shave off 3-4 depth levels: just enough to make Pteranodon work properly. But even "reasonable" depth hierarchies, such as for most plant taxa, produced expansion depths in the high 30's. This means there would be little or no scope for any major additions/changes, since these invariably introduce more expansions. For example, the correct logic for selecting taxobox colour couldn't be implemented (at least I couldn't do it): if going up the hierarchy you find "incertae sedis" you should note this fact but carry on to see if there's a 'real' colour above, then only use the incertae sedis colour if no 'real' colour is found. Implementing this in the template language needs nested if statements, and instantly sharply increases the expansion depth.
 * I conclude that "majorparent" would be another temporary fix: it would solve the problem for a while but would not be a permanent long term solution. The only long term solution is to code the traversal in a different language. I'm sorry if this isn't a solution for other wikis, but it is for us. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:45, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I'd also point out that more and more of key templates in the English Wikipedia either have been or are being converted to Lua: the citation templates are perhaps the most striking example, all of which are now implemented via Module:Citation/CS1, which is used on over 3,100,000 pages. Clade will soon be converted, and will then work much better, allowing larger cladograms. So very few pages in the English Wikipedia would now work in the same way if moved to a wiki without support for Lua. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:53, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

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Template:Metadata population AT-4
Hi Wikid77, need some assistance with this template. I have updated the latest population, and the new population number appeared in all the infoboxes for all the towns/cities, except for the "time" and the reference. It looks like the template's time and reference are following its predecessor from DE template. Can you please take a look? I have changed and saved a few times but the date remains 1 January 2016 and the reference is as per DE template. Thanks --Jay (talk) 10:24, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Although timestamp should come from "Template:Metadata population AT-4", there was a design flaw where the timestamp comes from AT-1 (Template:Metadata population AT-1) and should be fixed to use "4" not "1" when population code has prefix "4". -Wikid77 (talk) 10:54, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the timestamp, however, the reference is still wrong. If you noticed, I changed the reference to Statistik Austria - ...... Erstellt am 14.06.2016 (Last accessed 13.12.2016) but it still showing the old one. --Jay (talk) 17:02, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
 * It is ok now. Thanks --Jay (talk) 06:18, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

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