Talk:Heidelberg Castle

message: I'm currently translating the German article on Heidelberg Castle Gnasher72 20:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Translation done, needs checking (Former Gnasher72 quit WP after 10 days). -Wikid77 20:10, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: 18-March-2007: There was no closeup of the later castle pre-fire, so I plan to extract an enlarged castle view from other images. -Wikid77 11:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Castle pre-fire

message: 29-Dec-2007: The article "Heidelberg Castle" has extensive contents, as derived from the German Wikipedia, and has been changed for advanced formatting.  Some advanced techniques include:
* staggering some images left/right: To allow auto-wrapping of text and images on high-resolution screens, some images need to be staggered with alignment to the left ("left|thumb") to avoid large text gaps when stacked images are taller than the parallel text alongside.
* hiding Table-of-Contents: When the show/hide button for the Table-of-Contents is triggered, the text and images must auto-wrap without squeezed text: join words with " " to avoid narrow, squeezed text wrapping as only 2-words-per-line.
* stacking similar-size images: Wiki auto-wrapping has trouble by eclipsing text when wider images are stacked below narrow images, so keep stacked images within 10px of same width to avoid overlay as eclipsed text.
* double-indenting poetry: Because lines of poetry are typically short, those lines need to be indented more, by using multiple lead colons ("::") prefixing each line.
* infobox readability: The width of an infobox restricts the size of images displayed, so image placement must be considered to avoid postage-stamp sized photo images, as Wikipedia is able to quickly display JPEG images over 250px wide.
* avoid ragged intro lines: Many articles have ragged margins on the first few lines, due to wrapping of long words in the article title or long pronunciation text: pad the intro text to typeset the intro lines for even margins (at 800x600), and confirm wider screens will wrap evenly.
* photos priority over maps: Photos generally are more accepted than maps, and should be displayed larger; local users don't need maps since they know the location, so maps should be kept small or avoided until later in the article.  The top photo had been a tiny postage-stamp, so I enlarged the photo, lowering the map as a smaller image, lower in the infobox.
Those advanced-formatting techniques should be used when an article grows to include multiple images with extensive text. -Wikid77 (talk) 07:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advanced formatting

message: I note that the official website translates this to Heidelberg Palace rather than Heidelberg Castle: http://www.schloss-heidelberg.de/en/home/
Should this page be renamed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Snodnipper (talk • contribs) 12:31, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
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message: This is better translated as Philosopher's Walk, not "Alley of Philosophers", it's a sort of nature trail, not a street where they lived. When I was there, that was what the locals told us it was called in English. Deliusfan (talk) 14:24, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philosophenweg