Template talk:Featured article

Interwiki links

Please add interwiki links to the Norwegian and Vietnamese versions of this template:

[[no:Mal:Anbefalt]]
[[vi:Tiêu bản:Sao chọn lọc]]

They were created before this template was, and they are linked to from the other versions. Thanks.

– Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 02:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please add also interwiki link of fa.wikipedia!

[[fa:الگو:نوشتار برگزیده]]

Thanks

Mosaffa 21:58, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hi. Can someone please move the <includeonly> up one line so it's right next to the </div>? The way it is right now creates an extra white space at the top of articles. --Khoikhoi 03:19, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 03:46, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The white space is gone now. --Khoikhoi 03:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Popup hint

The popup hint on the star is currently "Wikipedia:Featured articles". Could this be changed to something more meaningful to non-wikipedians? Lupin|talk|popups 04:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to ask the same thing. Something like: "This is a featured article", and link it to Wikipedia:Featured articles--liquidGhoul 09:19, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The source code won't allow it. It uses pipes in the syntax and so a piped link will not work. I agree, if someone could implement it they certainly should. So far as I know, (which isn't much, though), it isn't possible.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 21:59, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a popup hint now, using a new template, {{titled-click}}. :-) Lupin|talk|popups 23:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 12:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Progress

I've slapped this template on the first three sections of articles at Wikipedia:Featured articles - "Art, architecture, and archaeology," "Awards and decorations," and "Biology and medicine." I'm going to take a break for now, as I should get some sleep before classes tomorrow. If anyone else wants to pick this job up, update your progress here. Note that Raul654 is currently in the middle of promoting a batch of articles to FA status; check that we don't miss any in these previous sections. — Rebelguys2 ^talk 09:17, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is this?

Not only does it not show in an article but it doesn't show on the template page. Perhaps the top of the talk page then is an appropriate place to explain what this does and why/where it is used. Rmhermen 15:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It makes a little star appear in the top-right of the screen. Talrias (t | e | c) 17:33, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps this should be clarified through a brief noinclude note.

This template will place a small star () in the top right hand corner of an article.

Discussion?

Did the community discuss this before it was implemented? I know of a number of people who are adamantly opposed to marking FAs anywhere other than the talk page, so please point me to a community discussion where consensus for this was reached. --Spangineer (háblame) 22:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was discussed at Wikipedia talk:Featured articles, where only Raul and Silence were opposed to the idea. Also, if you look at the top of the page, there had been discussion about this before, but it didn't really go anywhere. Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 22:21, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I think this is a great idea. Subtle and non-intrusive. —Locke Cole • t • c 02:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

concur, I was skeptical at first but have since found it very useful to tell at a glance it's featured. -- Stbalbach 18:00, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CSS

The style code should be in the CSS files, not the template, as what is a sensible location in the Monobook skin is not neccesarily sensible in other skins (I havn't checked, but we had that issue with the Spoken Wikipedia template a year or so back). Joe D (t) 03:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Problem: gap at top of articles with infoboxes

Copied from my talk page:

Something I just noticed that may be important: when the template is added at the top of the article, it forces the text down (appears to be an implicit break somewhere). I would suggest using it only at the bottom. —Kirill Lok s hin 03:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Hm, that's a pain. I like putting it at the top, since it has its effect at the top of the article so it feels right to put it there. This should be fixed in the template, but I don't see how. Lupin|talk|popups 03:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

It only seems to affect articles with a floated template at the top (infoboxes and such), so it may be an issue with overlapping div tags. —Kirill Lok s hin 03:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Any ideas for fixing this? Lupin|talk|popups 03:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The two line breaks (assuming you set up the templates like this:

{{featured article} }

{{infobox article

name=

blah=

}}

text of article) make it that way. -- getcrunk juice ^contribs 00:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please do place the template at the bottom of articles, as it says in the <noinclude> text. That makes it less confusing/inconvenient for editors. Chick Bowen 01:09, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category?

Could/should we add a Category:Featured articles tag to the template so we have a handy category of all FAs? Proto t c 19:46, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a Category:Wikipedia featured articles, but it annoyingly links to the talk pages of articles through the {{featured}} template. If we include it in this template, it might be a good idea to get rid of it from the {{featured}} template to reduce redundancy in the category. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that would be a step too far, and would be bound to further enrage the no-metadata-here people. We have Wikipedia:Featured articles already, which does the job pretty well I feel. Lupin|talk|popups 00:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Having a Wikipedia-specific category in the article-space would be a violation of Wikipedia:Self reference and would thus be out of place on a third party site. Featured articles are specific to Wikipedia, nowhere else. --mav 01:47, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A third-party site would presumably blank this template anyway, so the category would disappear with it. Still, I don't think the category is really needed or helpful - the star already links to a list of FAs (for readers), and whatlinkshere also works (for editors). Also, most FAs suffer from category creep and don't need another redundant one. Finally, since it would be the only metadata category, it would seem a bit out of place. -- grm_wnr Esc 19:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there are other metadata categories: the notorious Category:Living people and its little sister, Category:Year of death missing. But yes, the talk page category serves the function and is quite sufficient. I was taken back at first when the star appeared, but after thinking it over I've got no problem with it. I'd recommend not trying to expand on the idea for a while, however. Chick Bowen 00:16, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neither of those are actually metadata, even if they are used for that purpose - if someone is a living person is information on the article's subject, not the article (whether it's useful content-wise to categorize by it is another matter). "Year of death missing" is the kind of cleanup metadata we generally accept, like Category:Stubs. -- grm_wnr Esc 18:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stax can't read (aka, another category discussion moved up)

Just a question, but since we have this template now shouldn't we remove Category:Wikipedia featured articles from {{featured}} and move it to {{Featured article}}, so that the article itself is filed in the featured article category and not the talk page? Staxringold 01:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See the same conversation about three headings above ;-) —Kirill Lok s hin 01:30, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This seems pretty simple to me... If you think the category is extraneous, CfD it. Until that point the featured article category should probably be set up to be filled with Featured Articles and not Featured Article talk pages. Staxringold 01:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Page widening under Classic/Opera

Under the "classic" skin on Opera, the FA star widens the page so that there's a blank strip under the star, and enough extra blank area beyond that to cause a horizontal scroll bar to appear. --Carnildo 04:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, rather bothersome that. Janizary 08:03, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is why the css should be in the css files, not in style tags in the template. Joe D (t) 20:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Self-reference

Doesn't this need a {{selfref}} around it? SeventyThree^(Talk) 08:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The selfref template indents and puts italics around the text. Is there another comparable template which doesn't do this? Talrias (t | e | c) 14:31, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know of one, although you can remove the italics easily enough. Does it matter, since no text is displayed on the article pages? SeventyThree^(Talk) 22:14, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured lists

I created {{Featured list}} for the Featured lists. CG 20:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to run this by Jguk, who does for the featured lists what I do for the featured articles (as well as posting it on a better place than this). Raul654 20:20, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Click doesn't work in Firefox

I use Firefox 1.5.0.1. The little star is supposed to link to Wikipedia:Featured articles, but for me there's no link at all. The problem is presumably with Template:Titled-click. Is anyone enough of an expert to make the link work in Firefox as well as IE? dbenbenn | talk 07:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I use the same version of Firefox, and it is working fine for me... Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 07:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. Dbenbenn, which article is it not working in. Maybe you should try a different article. --liquidGhoul 08:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note that it's the star in the top-right corner of the template and of featured articles, not the star in the body of the template page (which is just a demo and isn't clickable). But you probably knew that... does using {{click}} instead of {{titled-click}} help you? You could copy this template to your userspace and test it out. Lupin|talk|popups 12:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Click has exactly the same behavior: it makes the image not clickable. Actually, here's something interesting: if I make the font size really teensy, then the link to Wikipedia:Featured articles appears, and the hover text, "This is a featured article ...", shows up. dbenbenn | talk 14:18, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's funny. In IE there is also a problem at large font sizes. Perhaps we should recreate this template in a simpler way. Shinobu 15:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Top or bottom?

The instructions say to put this at the bottom of the article but the few that I've checked have it at the top:

Does it make any difference?
Should anyone bother to move it from the top to the bottom?
If it is indeed important then please BOLD it in the instructions and some of us will start to change the existing ones as well as notifying the folks that didnt realize its importance.

hydnjo talk 00:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please do change hte star from top to bottom. It's abtrusive to have it at the top of the wikitext. Raul654 18:46, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Star image truncated in IE / Monobook

When logged in, the bottom legs of the star are cut off -- it doesn't look so good. When not logged in, the star image is OK because the "Please donate" link seems to provide some extra space before the h1? --Tabor 17:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also have image truncation issues... it only happens at large font sizes (I find this very significant), because the image falling out of the 14x14 click region. Currently our template calls result in lots of nesting divs and spans - perhaps it would be better to redo this in a cleaner way, where we can solve the problem more easily. Shinobu 16:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some "featured articles" templates link to the picture and not to the article

Take a look at Java programming language, and click on the Wikipedia:Featured article emblem in the upper right corner, you will be redirected to information on the image.

Take a look at India, and click on the featured article emblem, you will be redirected to the article about featured articles.

What is wrong with the Java programming language article?

--Velle 18:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (copied from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) by Thryduulf 18:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC))[reply]

This happens to me too (I'm using Firefox). However, under Lynx you see a nice "This is a featured article. Click here for more information." but the link will always redirect to the image's information page. Can this problem be fixed? This is important for accessibility reasons. --surueña 10:48, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The template uses some CSS magic to make the image link to Wikipedia:Featured articles: it places an invisible link to the article layered above the image. The fix for Lynx and other browsers that ignore CSS would be to put #REDIRECT [[Wikipedia:Featured articles]] on the image description page, something which has its own drawbacks. --Carnildo 02:51, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template categories

This template is not categorized. I propose the following:

[[Category:Miscellaneous templates|{{PAGENAME}}]] (perhaps someone suggest a better one?)
[[Category:Title templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]

To be placed with <noinclude> </noinclude> tags. As the template is protected, I cannot do this myself. — Eoghanacht ^talk 14:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

nominated for deletion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Metadata_templates TimL 00:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Classic skin

Is it me, or has this template stopped workin in the classic skin? -- ALoan (Talk) 21:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's been turned off for skins other than Monobook. --Carnildo 21:52, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why? It worked for me. Is it going to be turned back on? -- ALoan (Talk) 23:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the CSS code to the monobook.css file. If it worked fine in classic it should just be a case of adding the same code to the classic css file, but I don't want to go fiddling too much with these things until I'm sure it works and there are no objections. Joe D (t) 03:31, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Under Opera/Classic, it caused page-widening, forcing a horizontal scrollbar to appear. See above. --Carnildo 06:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. So one issue for some users has been fixed, causing an issue for other users? Is there any hope that users of the classic skin will get the star back? What needs to be done? -- ALoan (Talk) 10:04, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added the CSS to the classic skin. It still adds a scroll bar to Opera, but the extra space is blank, so it's not actually affecting the way the page displays. Joe D (t) 13:06, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent - thank you. That is perfect.

Do similar changes need to be made to {{Spoken Wikipedia}} and {{featured list}}, or have they been done already? -- ALoan (Talk) 14:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spoken is done, I will look into featured list. Joe D (t) 20:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am using Classic skin and it still not working for me (Firefox 1.5.0.3). Andrew Levine 05:37, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried refreshing/purging cache? It is working for me in IE and Firefox.

For some reason, it can't decide whether it wants to appear at the end of the "User: ... Talk" line at the top of the page, or in a similar position just under the horizontal line. FWIW, most articles have whitespace at the top right, just under the horizontal line, where the page name and "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" appear on the left. If there is going to be a standard place to put these things, that seems to me like a good one. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FA star missing from pages

I've noticed several articles that are Featured but are missing the star on the top right corner. Looking at the edit, the FA Tag is present at the bottom of the article. If you add the FA Tag to the top of the article, the star shows up. Here is an example of two pages that I had to add a second tag to the top of the article to have the star show up - Order of the Garter & Antarctic krill. Morphh 00:33, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem to show up at all in classic skin anymore either (went away within the last week). Anyone know what's up? -- Rick Block (talk) 18:47, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody requested it at MediaWiki talk:Standard.css, and since I don't use the classic skin I'm not sure what their objection to it is about. If anybody can work out the correct css I can add it to the file. Joe D (t) 14:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ka interwiki

Please add [[ka:თარგი:რჩეული]] to iw's. tnx. - Alsandro 03:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The star doesn't show on our wiki (ka) featured articles at all... is there anything else we need to implement apart from placing the {{Featured article}} template? would appreciate your input. tnx. - Alsandro (T) 01:49, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]