Template talk:Infobox kommune

message: Hello. I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but if you are reading this right now, please be informed that I have added Regions of Norway and Traditional districts of Norway to this template, and that I hope to have your assistance in filling in all the blank spaces that these additions have created. // Big Adamsky  • BA's talk page 13:31, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, the addition of the greater regions seems superluous on this template since it is already prominently featured on :Template:Infobox Fylke. So nevermind. 8-) // Big Adamsky  • BA's talk page 13:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes

message: It seems quite odd that this template list "district" along with county. The districts have no official function, and some of them have not been a part of the state structure the past 800 years... I can not see any point in displaying this historic trivia information: Norway has a two level structure: county (fylke) and municipality (kommune).
Could we remove "district" from this template?
Ebben (talk) 23:39, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why list the "districts"?

message: We have a few municipalities in Norway with official name in two or even three languages, Porsanger is an example of this. The problem is the name part of the infobox; I would like to see the names listed something like
 Porsanger kommune
 Porsáŋggu gielda
 Porsangin komuuni
Is there any way to accommodate this? (Note also that Sami language municipalities may use suohkan instead of gielda.)
- BsL 00:36, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have tried to address this issue by adding two alternative parameters, alt_names_first if the name(s) is to be before the Norwegian name and alt_names_last if it is to be below. (See: Gáivuotna Kåfjord and Porsanger) -  havarhen  | Talk 19:19, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple languages 

message: What are the "areapercent" and "populationpercent" supposed to be a percentage of?
That's the kind of thing that is good to have on the template page inside a .... --Alvestrand 10:18, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Percentages of what? 

message: The new series of pages in the orders of magnitude hierarchy can typically be used when citing unitary measures, like this: 839 m². I propose that the area parameter be modified to allow for some application of this feature. __meco 20:34, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I attempted to do a workaround by applying  which didn't work, so I stand by my proposal to have this function implemented. __meco (talk) 13:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orders of magnitude 

message: Can someone get rid of the "demonym" entry when it's not filled in?
Adding low-value items like this (stronger wording not inserted) without defaulting it to "off" is hurtful to the articles that don't use it! --Alvestrand (talk) 06:54, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Blame me. :-) I assumed the demonym would be added to every municipality article pretty quickly, an assumption I obviously shouldn't have made. I'll add the demonym to the rest of the articles today or tomorrow, but in the mean time it won't appear when  is empty anymore. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 07:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demonym?????? 

message: I don't remember the term, but it is possible to map an image so that different sections of it links to different pages and the names of these pages will appear as the mouse hovers above the image. Could we not implement this with the county/municipality locator maps? __meco (talk) 08:49, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adjacent municipalities info on locator maps 

message: should be deleted, or it should be stated that it is a demonym in Norwegian and not English  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgagaga (talk • contribs) 15:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I have boldly renamed it to Norwegian demonym. Any toughts? Rettetast (talk) 19:31, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It didn't work.Bgagaga (talk) 18:44, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demonym 

message: I think this template should be deleted in favour of  (with any missing properties merged in to that template) or failing that, made to call it. Thoughts? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This infobox already calls . Rettetast (talk) 17:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My mistake, sorry. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:16, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

text: On further investigation, this template breaks the other's microformat, by putting alternative names into the main name field, rather than using the proper other_name, native_name and nickname fields. This also prevents the use of the native_name_lang field, which is important when non-English names are used. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you suggest a solution, in the sandbox? Rettetast (talk) 17:38, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

text: Here's an idea.  The other_name field is currently unused, so how about adding it as an option first, then have a script/bot populate it with the desired values. This same bot/script could expand the herad/kommune logic as well, and add an empty 'native_name' entry to be populated later. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:40, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea. And deprecate the current parameters, too? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

text: On reflection: why would we need a bot, if we make the change I suggest above? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:56, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A bot might not be necessary, but someone should go through and change all the alt_names_first and alt_names_last to native_name and other_name. Once these are converted, those fields can be removed.  It's pretty easy to see which ones are using these fields if you see a multiline name in the header. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:16, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

text: I have added the necessary other_name and native_name fields to this template (no change in current usage). Later today, I will run a script to change the alt_names_first and at_names_last options to use other_name and native_name.  There should be no change at all in the outward appearance, with a very minor change to the code.  The benefit will be a considerable simplification of the template, and will correctly identify these multiple names as distinct alternative variants of the same name. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:17, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to both of you. Templates like this are very complicated and it is a great that we have editors experienced that are willing to make necessary tweaks. I'll watch and scream out if I see something wrong. Again thanks. Rettetast (talk) 19:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome! Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

text: Please don't forget "native_name_lang", even if you only leave a place-holder. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:22, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox settlement 

message: Please unlink the subheading Country. Per WP:OVERLINK, this is a widely understood term - the link adds no value.
Colonies Chris (talk) 13:30, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Colonies Chris, 8 March 2011 

message: Please change url in line: | population_demonym     = {{#if:|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sprakrad.no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskriving_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn</br>
to:</br>
http://www.sprakrad.no/nb-no/Sprakhjelp/Rettskrivning_Ordboeker/Innbyggjarnamn/</br>
Regards Gryphonis (talk) 09:11, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done and thanks. Rettetast (talk) 20:34, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for update of url 

message: Many of the denonyms seems to be Norwegian demonyms instead of English ones, these should either be changed to English, or deleted. Or alternatively, the infobox should be changed so it is clear it's Norwegian demonyms (but then someone has to make sure there's no English demonyms too) Yyyyyngve (talk) 18:01, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone? Yyyyyngve (talk) 04:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demonyms 

message: It would be nice to have a feature which allows you to override the maps with a costume image. As far as I understand, the map is picked based on the municipal ID variable, but I find those maps to be of much lower quality than those you can find in
Category:SVG locator maps of municipalities in Norway (location map scheme)
VulpesVulpes42 (talk) 14:31, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for feature to manually be able to override map 

message: You have edited . How can the error ('Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 502: "Norway Viken" is not a valid name for a location map definition.') at Asker, Viken be fixed? The problem is caused by the infobox using county = Viken. Changing that to county = Viken fixes the problem, but then the infobox shows the county as Viken which links to a disambiguation page. Johnuniq (talk) 03:07, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe I fixed the coding so that it should work now. Let me know if any other issues come up! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jay1279 (talk • contribs) 02:30, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that works. We'd better hope there are not too many more exceptions. Johnuniq (talk) 05:37, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commune causing map error