Template talk:Skip to talk

message: And so, the problem of too many boxes was "solved" by adding another box... gah – Gurch 20:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ironic, no? EVula 17:29, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, but good work though. Michaelas10 (T|C) 20:02, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many boxes 

message: Please see User_talk:Kingboyk#id.3D.22toc.22... there may be an issue with something relating to this template. I am hazy on the details and am only carrying the message. ++Lar: t/c 17:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  div id=toc 

message: I would like to make a confession. I originally created this template as a silly joke, in the style of , as a sort of comment on Template madness. I expected people to have a small chuckle and send it directly to TfD. I never expected people to actually use it. I never expected people to actually like it (to the point of giving me a barnstar!).
I decided to make this more clear (looks like I was too subtle originally) after noticing that my silly joke template is spreading to other wikipedias. Unfortunately, it's out of my hands now; being originally a joke template is not a valid TfD reason for deletion, and other people do seem to want this template or something like it. --cesarb 02:01, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A confession 

message: I can't get a hidden note to show up correctly in the code in a substituted template. 
Please look at my edits in the history of the template: Template:Skiptotoctalk
I was trying to get this note to show up only at the code level after substitution:
:Above wiki code created with 
I kept having unwanted text or characters showing up at the visible level after substitution. Or there was a "template loop" message, or something similar, at the hidden level.
I tried no-include tags, hidden comment tags, etc.. Nothing worked correctly when I tried substituting it into a page. 
Try it in any template or test template. Then try the substituted template in a sandbox and see if it shows up correctly at both the visible and hidden levels. It is essential to try out the substitution in order to see the problems show up. 
This hidden note would be useful for others who want to duplicate the latest version of the template elsewhere. This would encourage more people to substitute templates, too.--Timeshifter 10:39, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We shouldn't be encouraging people to substitute templates in hidden comments. On the rare occasions where substing is actually useful, such as in :template:afd, you can do it by using bold error messages when non-substed. Chris Cunningham 11:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a long list of required or suggested substitutions at Wikipedia:Template substitution. So it is not "rare" that substitution is useful. People seeing substituted code will not see an error message. Only the person trying to use a non-substituted template might see one. So people need an easy way to copy the template elsewhere without having to copy the crud. And they need to use the latest version of the template, not an old substituted version.--Timeshifter 13:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Maybe you thought I linked to :template:afd for fun, but try including that template in a page without substing it and see what you get. Chris Cunningham 14:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I believe you about that, but you missed my other point. Please reread what I wrote. --Timeshifter 15:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hidden note in substituted template 

message: Can we add a simple explanation on the template page?
It only needs to say (if this is right) that the template should be placed at the top of a talk page with many boxes, what it does, and possibly suggest a number of boxes/height (e.g. a 800x600 screen browser's full page) that qualifies the page as one that should have this template. Should we get consensus on these ideas first, and should they be drafted first?
Thanks very much, Drum guy (talk) 23:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done :) Any improvements on wording are welcome. Chris Cunningham (talk) 23:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks (I have done - a little)! Very speedy, and what an amazing hat you have! Drum guy (talk) 01:01, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Noel Edmonds wore an identical one once on Deal or No Deal. No word of a lie. Anyway, glad to be of service :) Chris Cunningham (talk) 01:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add an explanation on template page 

message: I moved the template name to 
:Template:Skip to talk
It is easier to remember and use now.
:
Just copy and paste the above wiki code to the top of talk pages. It helps people skip over all the banners to get to the talk. Thus; "skip to talk"
 will still work. It redirects to the new name.
--Timeshifter (talk) 04:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Skip to talk]] 

message: bored? lets talk!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pikiwikiwiz (talk • contribs) 21:13, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  COME ON AND TALK 

message: I wonder if anyone would support making the design of this template a bit bolder, since I consistently miss it on pages where it is needed, viz. where there are a stream of identical-looking talk-page boxes.  The other talk-page boxes also have a bolder design.  For example, see how innocuous it looks on Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche.  What if we were to boldface the text, make it larger, not have the entire message be a bluelink, etc.?  RJC TalkContribs 16:35, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This was discussed up at #Redesign. I'm not convinced that bolding is really necessary so long as the template is always at the top of the stack. If a page is already chock-full of templates, it doesn't seem appropriate to make a new one distracting. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 20:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bolder design 

message: This template only works on a Talk page big enough to have a Contents box, namely, one with more than three items. I tried adding  but I don't understand the resulting ABCD... box -- not a regular Contents box. And I developed  with "Skip to Talk" as the text and of course  as the model. But "2" and the associated "/doc" are now blanked and up for deletion because there was nothing generic for the command to "go to" (to replace "[[#toc|" in the current template). If anyone can tell how to add a standard Contents box to a small Talk page, that would at least give a tool one could manually combine with the existing Skip template. Or maybe there's another solution I haven't thought of. Thanks. Swliv (talk) 21:11, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: With some pondering time; and with, alas for where my head is now (with a help from a Yobot visit to my original-target, two-item Talk page), my  now deleted; I have a new idea on this. With "Untitled" now having been added by the bot to the opening item on the GJRomero Talk page, I can imagine a new "Skip to Talk" command bar (if "command bar" is the right term for what the template creates on the Talk page) which went to "Untitled". In other words, the template would have to be customized to the particular Talk page with the name of the first Talk item in order to use it. Put more in terms used in my earlier note above, instead of "[[#toc|" it would be "[[#___|" with "Untitled" filling in the blank for use on the GJRomero page. (And, once a TOC appeared, there'd be a switch to the current  template.) For another "slim" talk page I know well (though one not as clogged with a raft of templates so thus prob. not a current candidate for the imagined <nowiki>), the blank would be filled in by "Name confusion". It's sort of a jury rigged solution but for me it would be better than nothing. I don't know how to build a "blank" into a template, if anyone could help on that. (A working, manual TOC template to add would still be the simplest solution.) Or any other thoughts? Thanks. Swliv (talk) 19:18, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needed: Something for Talk page without a Contents box 

message: If I chew on something for a while .... In my very first line above I linked to the Wiki place which today, one subsection in, solved my problem. Inserting "__TOC__" (two underlines before and after) creates ("forces") a TOC. I've done it here, smooth as ___ (allusive language escaping me). How'd I miss it? Ah, well. Cheers. Thanks. Swliv (talk) 17:44, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Found

message: About skip to toc: I arrived here after noticing an editor add  at a Talk page.  It seems to work fine, in bringing reader of a talk page over banners to the TOC of the talk page.  And it appears to be an undocumented function of .  Template:Skiptotoc is a redirect to template:Skip to talk.  How best to describe this, in Template:Skip to talk/doc?
About skip to talk:  And, in the documentation, it seems to me that "skip to talk" should be better explained.  With uninformed eyes, I don't get what it is for...  I gather that it probably allows a reader of a talk page to skip over banners to the first discussion section?  It wouldn't be possible or more natural to have it go to the most recent discussion section, or perhaps go to the last one?  Slightly different than skipping to bottom of page, if the last discussion section is a long one.
But, hmm, maybe "skip to talk" does NOT go to the first discussion section, but rather goes to a TOC of discussion sections?  So "skip to talk" is the same as "skip to toc"?  That's not clear in the doc.
I only surmise this because, at Template:Skip to section, I notice a "See also' note:  ", for skipping to the table of contents".  If they are the same, then actually maybe "Skip to toc" ought to be promoted first, because it is a more clear name, and this template should be moved to that name, leaving a redirect from "skip to talk".
And, hmm, does there have to be a TOC for "skip to talk" or "skip to toc" to work?  Before I started editing this new discussion section, I saw mention in a section above that a Talk page with few discussion items might not have a TOC, and about the possibility of forcing a TOC to be created, as a workaround.  Now I sort of understand that.  But the workaround is not in the documentation....  --doncram 17:01, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Good eye user: Doncram.  I have been using the template Skip to TOC for a while, without realizing it is a redirect to Skip to Talk. I am not sure why they changed this in the RFD (which I cannot find) in 2011, since I believe it only works if there is a Table of contents, which it goes to just as you describe above,  but I haven't tested this lately. Ottawahitech (talk) 02:35, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain "skip to toc" functionality, explain "skip to talk" better 

message: Bring that shortcut menu in the documentation page
VarunFEB2003 (talk) 09:01, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 10:03, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks VarunFEB2003 (talk) 18:02, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 22 July 2016 

message: Please apply this sandbox edit. It introduces TemplateStyles, which results in clearer wikicode, improved accessibility (the arrows, which have no semantic meaning, are applied in CSS, so accessibility software like screen readers don’t consider them to be content), and less deprecated inline CSS. Thanks in advance, —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:09, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 22:26, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why are the arrows seemingly italicized, i.e. was this intentional? I find them less clear visually, because following the link takes one down the page as opposed to slightly to the left and down the page. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 17:09, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm unsure of exactly what your issue is here? It looks visually the same to me before/after the change and worked in the same way. If it's causing an issue for you, I can revert it, but I don't quite understand what that would be. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 17:13, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Took a screenshot. Using Safari 14.  — Godsy (TALKCONT) 17:28, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , Thanks. I've undone the change - kinda weird though, neither Chrome nor Firefox displays the arrows as italicized. If  re-implements the styles to remove the italics effect from the arrows, I'll re-instate the change, of course. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 17:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have no idea what’s going on in Safari. The arrows are supposed to be italicized also in the now-restored version… Anyways, I’ve forced the non-italic arrows, does the sandbox look okay now? (I neither see italic arrows in any of these versions.) If it’s okay, please apply the edit to the live stylesheet (but pay attention not to remove the padlock template from the bottom) before reverting the main template edit. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:29, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  if  can confirm there is no issue in the sandbox, I can add your new changes and redo the edit to the template. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 21:48, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sandbox seemingly looks good. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 04:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  the changes have been re-implemented, please let me know of any further issues/complications. Elliot321 (talk | contribs) 04:08, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use TemplateStyles 

message: * This template appears to no longer work with the latest version of the Vector (2022) theme, which moves the table of contents into the sidebar. The expected behaviour would be that it would autoscroll the page to just above the first section heading, where the table of contents would otherwise be, however, clicking the link to skip appears to do nothing. Anyone know how to get this fixed? – Scyrme (talk) 12:30, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Scyrme Is this template useful in Vector 2022? The table of contents is already available at the top of the page (assuming you have the sidebar closed), so I'm not sure whether or not you would need/want a "Skip to table of contents" button?  AHollender (WMF) (talk) 16:35, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, you're right. My understanding now is that the new theme is meant to make the template unnecessary, but when I wrote that comment I didn't know that. I assumed that hiding the sidebar also hid the table of contents because they are both located in the same place, so I didn't know hiding the sidebar would elevate the table of contents. It took me a while to notice that hiding the sidebar doesn't hide table of contents. The design could be refined to make the theme more user friendly, but posted that feedback over on MediaWiki rather than here. Thanks for your reply though! – Scyrme (talk) 18:48, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @AHollender (WMF) Scyrme Just to let you know I had the same thought about this template, so added some code to hide it on Vector 2022. the wub "?!" 22:38, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @The wub awesome, thanks for doing that : ) AHollender (WMF) (talk) 23:23, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken functionality with new version of vector theme