Module talk:WikiProject banner

Documentation

There is a piece of automatically generated documentation on Template:WikiProject Military history that says "This project has opted out of project-independent quality assessments and is using a custom class mask." The Project has not opted out of project-independent quality assessments. Can we delete "has opted out of project-independent quality assessments"? I am unsure where this is done. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

The military history project has opted out of PIQA. That is the only way to support the custom quality scale. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:10, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

What would be the effect of adopting the PIQA? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 17:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Losing all the custom logic in Template:WikiProject Military history/class — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:09, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Does that include the A-class logic or just the B-class logic? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

You'd certainly lose AL, BL and CL, probably several of the others; you might be left with just the standard scale (FA, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, FL, List). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:01, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

PROJECT_STATUS parameter

The module currently has an undocumented parameter for the status of a project, which will add a CSS class to the outer table. For example if you set |PROJECT_STATUS=semiactive then it will add class="semi-active-project". Does anyone know if this has any purpose or is used by any tools? It either needs documenting properly or removing — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

The rendering of the banner changes also, see uses. Izno (talk) 16:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

The rendering of inactive banners is not triggered by the PROJECT_STATUS parameter. It's produced by a different ("inactive") function of the module — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:58, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

This parameter was added in 2021 after this request by User:MJL. The rationale given was "The change adds a new class to the banner which would allow users to hide inactive WikiProject at their own discretion". — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:01, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Here are my thoughts:

• It is understandable that some editors wish to hide inactive banners, and the inactive-project class should continue to be applied to inactive banners.
• I do not see the value of active-project or semi-active-project and I don't believe anyone is using these.
• The |PROJECT_STATUS= parameter can be dropped from active project banners
• For inactive banners, there may be some utility in allowing |PROJECT_STATUS=defunct to be defined instead of the default |PROJECT_STATUS=inactive. So this parameter should continue to be supported for inactive banners.
• Other statuses listed at Wikipedia:Inactive WikiProjects such as "dormant", "revivable", "dead", "stillborn" will not be supported unless there is a specific request for this.

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ: I'd agree with what you've laid out there. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 18:30, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Out of interest, did you use personal CSS to hide these banners, or are you aware of users who have done so? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:20, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Deletion of Template:WPBannerMeta/taskforce caused a table error at Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces/taskforce

Deletion of {{WPBannerMeta/taskforce}} has caused a table error at {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces/taskforce}}. I don't know what was in that deleted page, so I don't know what to insert into the latter page's noinclude tags to work around this error. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:33, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

It wasn't being used, so I have deleted it under G8 — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

It looks like {{WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces/templatepage}} may also have become unused and deleteable. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:32, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

I believe it is only Template:WikiProject Indian roads, Template:WikiProject U.S. Roads and possibly some other roads projects that are using this depcrecated code now — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Classifying subpages in main talk

Moved to Template talk:Pagetype

All pages not in article space are automatically detected as being non-articles. But Gonnym pointed out that we have some subpages in Main talk space (e.g. Talk:Multiverse (Marvel Cinematic Universe)/FAQ) which should also be classified as non-articles. The types I have seen are FAQ pages like the above, or talk archive pages. It is not clear how we should classify them (e.g. Project-class) or just use the default NA-class for these types of page. Does anyone have any opinion? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I'd say that talk archive can be NA like regular talk. /FAQ (and maybe /GA) ideally should be project but if that is an issue then NA can work also (or allow manual override with the normal class parameter). Gonnym (talk) 08:15, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I think I would prefer to treat all these subpages in the same way, rather that try to guess what they are based on the name of the page — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Moving notes to banner shell

There is some talk on Template talk:WikiProject banner shell about moving certain commonly used notes (e.g. attention needed, infobox needed, image needed) to the banner shell, to avoid multiple projects having to replicate the same parameter. Any comments over there please — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Outdated code/hooks

I am working through the remaining templates using the old hooks.

• Template:WikiProject Australian Roads -  Done
• Template:WikiProject Indian roads -  Done
• Template:WikiProject U.S. Roads - tricky

If anyone knows of any more please add to the list — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

insource:"WPBannerMeta/hooks/" shows that hooks are used at Template:WikiProject Figure Skating/A-Class review, Template:WikiProject Military history/aclass (and /sandbox), Template:WikiProject Pirate Politics, and Template:WikiProject The Beatles/sandbox. Gonnym (talk) 11:33, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll look at those — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:34, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

auto doc category

Can |DOC=auto also add the template to the project category? Either Category:WikiProject project Category:WikiProject project templates‎ category. Gonnym (talk) 11:27, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Don't see any reason not to do this. Will sort in the next couple of days — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject United States

Hi, the template is populating Category:Pages with script errors, and it only displays the following message:

"The time allocated for running scripts has expired. The time allocated for running scripts has expired."

I don't know how to fix this, please help, thanks!! --Funandtrvl (talk) 17:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)