Template talk:WPBannerMeta/Conversion

Question
Question: how do you find out how many inclusions a template has? Martin 23:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You can use the 'What links here option, e.g. D&D but you then have to copy & paste the list into something that counts the number of lines. -- WOSlinker (talk) 23:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, but that only works for <500 I think? There must be a tool for this somewhere. Martin 23:52, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You can go upto 5000 -- WOSlinker (talk) 00:02, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Bottom-importance
This is a new one for me. D&D wants to have bottom-importance enabled. This might take some jiggery-pokery. Martin 00:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Doesn't look as though many changes would be needed, just an extra line in /importancescale & also in /importance. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:49, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Creating categories
WOS, I've noticed that you often don't create the required categories when you convert a banner. This means there are potentially lots of redlinks on talkpages ... Martin 22:42, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps tracking categories on /templatepage to identify these? Perhaps "... missing optional categories", "... missing categories" and "... missing many categories" would be useful? Happy ‑ melon 23:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Not all the projects seem to use all the categories listed as missing. So is it worth creating all the cats or should I just try to do the NA ones (which seem to be the most common missing ones). -- WOSlinker (talk) 23:14, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I think all the standard ones should be created at least. Personally I never leave any uncreated. Yes, tracking missing categories might be an idea. Did your bot use to create these automatically? What happened to that? Martin 23:30, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'll go back and do some at some point. (Not straight away, I will do.). -- WOSlinker (talk) 23:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I've created Category:WPBannerMeta templates with missing assessment categories which will be flagged if the template is missing any of the class (but not FQS) or importance categories. Maybe one for where FULL_QUALITY_SCALE is set but none of the FQS categories have been created might be good as well as it could be used to point out where it could be removed. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you get it to identify the non-existent categories which are non-empty? Then we can create these as a priority. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

WP Bus
I was bored today and started working on Template:WikiProject Buses (in the sandbox at Template:WikiProject Buses/Sandbox) since it looked simple enough at the front end but as i dug in, it got more and more out of my depth so i left the code i couldn't convert in a gray pre box at the buttom of the page for anyone that wants to look and/or try to finish. Peachey88 (Talk Page · Contribs) 02:02, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've done some work on it but there may be some more tweaking that still needs doing. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:09, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I've polished it off; some of the stuff wasn't carried over, but that's because it's unused: no point in supporting Needed-Class when they don't even have the categories for it! Happy ‑ melon 13:59, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Reversion
just to let everyone konw, I've noticed a few templates that had already been converted have been reverted recently:


 * Template:WikiProject Evanescence‎
 * Template:WikiProject Tennessee
 * Template:YearsProject
 * Template:HorrorWikiProject

-- WOSlinker (talk) 21:14, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

99%
:D &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:36, 13 October 2009 (UTC)