Template talk:Sisterproject

Pages which use this template:

• Template:Wikiquote
• Template:Wikiquotepar
• Template:Wiktionary
• Template:Wiktionarypar
• Template:Wikibooks
• Template:Wikibookspar
• Template:Cookbook
• Template:Cookbookpar
• Template:Economics (Wikibooks)
• Template:Wikisource
• Template:Wikisourcepar
• Template:Wikisourcecat
• Template:Wikisource author
• Template:Commons
• Template:Commonscat
• Template:Wikinews
• Template:Wikispecies

Pages which might use this template in the future:

• Template:Wikiversity
• Template:Wikiversitycourse
• Template:Book
• Template:Bookshelf
• Template:Pic

This template should never be used, because calling one template from another is a bad practice. -- Netoholic @ 02:55, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)

• Your source for this contention would be? --Phil | Talk 10:54, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)
  • Well, there is the common sense that two templates require two calls to the database. I've answered more about it here. -- Netoholic @ 15:46, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
    • Why are you explaining common sense to us, instead of the developers, who originally designed 5-deep nesting into the themplate system, and IIRC later removed that limitation? --Jerzy(t) 04:54, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
      • That limitation was for five instances of the same template displayed per page, not "nesting" five deep. -- Netoholic @ 06:24, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)

This template is up for deletion at WP:TFD#Template:Sisterproject. Go there and vote! -- Itai 09:40, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Survey of opinions regarding use of this template

Trying to form a consensus. Should this template be used to generate templates listed above? This would ensure consistent formatting, and would make editing them easier. An example of the modification (for Template:Wikisource):

From:

<div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;">
<div style="float: left;">[[Image:sourceberg.jpg|50px|none|Wikisource]]</div>
<div style="margin-left: 60px;">[[Wikisource]] has original text related to this article:
<div style="margin-left: 10px;">'''''[[Wikisource:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}}]]'''''</div>
</div>
</div>

To: (current sisterproject layout)

{{Sisterproject |project=Wikisource
|image=Sourceberg.jpg
|text=[[Wikisource]] has original text related to this article:
|link={{PAGENAME}}
}}

Or: (very similar, slightly more flexible, sisterproject layout)

{{Sisterproject |project=Wikisource
|image=Sourceberg.jpg
|text=[[Wikisource]] has original text related to this article:
|link=[[Wikisource:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}}]]
}}

Support

(Sign your name only, no comments.)

• — Itai (f&t) 21:22, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Oppose

(Sign your name only, no comments.)

Comments

• The sisterproject layout cannot presently be changed, as it is used in Template:Wikiquotepar, which is protected. Once this is resolved, it will probably be unprotected. — Itai (f&t) 21:22, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)