Template talk:Commons category multi

message: 22-Feb-2007: As a new template, Template:Commonscat_show2, is not just a multi-category extension of Template:Commonscat, but is also exploring an annotated style showing examples and listing related templates.  There are many templates related to categories, but information comparing or describing the various templates is not easily seen elsewhere.  Showing a few examples and related templates should improve productivity. -Wikid77 17:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annotated style 

message: 22-Feb-2007: It is certainly worth the extra code to describe a few related templates within each particular template: compared to the size of a typical PNG image, comments added to a template are probably processed over 1,000 times faster than displaying a single PNG image.  Speed depends largely on file-size during transfer, just as an HTML browser can scan 5,000 lines of HTML comments per second due to the file-size of those comments.  Keep the amount of comments and examples below a thousand lines, and then the comment processing would be a fraction of a second for the template, when included. -Wikid77 17:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments are fast 

message: 13-May-2009: The template was originally named "Template:Commonscat_show2" (3 years ago), and that is a redirection title used by about 70 pages (as of May 2009). New name {Commons_cat_multi} should be used, whenever possible, to phase out the prior name (and reduce confusion somewhat). There's no hurry to rename, because there are 1,000 other confusions at any given time, so no improvement really matters much. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:18, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirections here

message: Hi.
I made the following changes today:
# White space removal implemented to fix the white space bug.  had previously implemented it for link destination only.
#  template is used for layout consistency with other sister project templates.
# Line break opportunity implemented.
Here is a screenshot of the testcase to let you know what bug I am talking about: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8tNkKG_EzjZd3NqbG8xdFRBRG8/view?pref=2&pli=1
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 17:34, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes of 6 Feb 2016 

message: Are there any objections to renaming this template Template:Commons categories? -- PBS (talk) 14:03, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: How many articles already use "Commons category multi"?  Are there plans to automate a rename cleanup across all articles?  • Sbmeirow • Talk • 05:53, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: To question 2, No - that would be both unnecessary and against WP:NOTBROKEN. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:21, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Propose rename

message: Template:Commons and Template:Commons category (and probably other similar templates) italicize the Wikimedia link; is there a reason this template doesn't do that? If not, it should be fixed to be consistent with the others. V2Blast (talk) 04:59, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italics 

message: There seem to be broken links on some of the articles where this is used, such as Woodhaven and Cross Bay Boulevards buses where the link display looks like [[::commons:Category:<link>|<link>]] with two colons. Replacing |nspace=:commons:Category with  |nspace=commons:Category seems to fix the problem in preview, at least on the article I mentioned, but would it work for other articles? I don't want to make that drastic a change without seeing the effects, so I ask if links still work on other articles. epicgenius (talk) 19:38, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to be a general change, see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Links starting with .5B.5B:: no longer valid? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:25, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I fixed the underlying Module:Pagelist as well to not double up on colons. --Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 22:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken links 

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--Timeshifter (talk) 09:16, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done:  is usually not required for edits to the documentation or categories of templates using a documentation subpage. Use the 'edit' link at the top of the green "Template documentation" box to edit the documentation subpage. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 12:43, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . Oops. Thanks! The doc sections do not have edit buttons. I must have missed the edit button at the top of the green doc. --Timeshifter (talk) 15:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: my pleasure! Paine  18:28, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects section