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Contents 1 Portal parameter 2 Removing redundant templates 3 Addition of other Wikiprojects in the templates 4 Usage of portal parameter 5 Reg: Assessment 6 Peer review 7 Blank lines at top 8 Typos 9 Someone add importance scale for WP:WINDPA 10 Replacing an image 11 Nesting fix 12 Image:Tricolor.png 13 Image replacement request 14 we need a "television" notice 15 Portal link 16 Update the Vote.png image 17 Assessments by date 18 Newer workgroups 19 Indian cinema 20 Remove C-Class 21 Category (Start Class, Unknown importance) 22 Adding C Class - mistake made 23 Minor change 24 old article name 25 A.R.Rajaraja Varma 26 image-needed 27 Template 28 WP:INCOTM 29 Geography redirect 30 Update 31 Categories awry

[edit] Portal parameter

According to the project banner, the portal parameter should refer to some sub-page entry of the queue. Why are we to write just "portal=yes" to it? Shouldn't we mention the relevant subpage as well? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I was not sure how the portal pages were organized. So just linked it to general pages. Please provide an example and I can update the template accordingly. - Ganeshk (talk) 17:05, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Have a look at Selected content summary page that I created for the Selected articles on Portal:India. It links to the summary of all the articles under WP:PINSA. A convenient way to find when an article was last featured/will be featured is to see the last parameter in the bracket, which is the last date of featuring. In fact, this also provides a convenient way to find out all the days in which the given article came on the portal page: just click "what links here" from the summary page of any article. The trouble is almost all articles have been once featured, the exception being for those selected very recently or those for whom a working summary is absent. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing redundant templates

I have identified the following templates that have become redundant after the addition of {{WP India}}:

• {{WikiProject Indian cities}}
• {{WikiProject Indian states}}
• {{WikiProject Indian districts}}
• {{WikiProject Politics of India}}
• {{Wikiproject History of India}}
• {{Old India COTW}}

We can also deprecate the Indian portal related templates if we are able to integrate the infomation present in it with this template.

Is it okay to remove the above mentioned templates while adding the {{WP India}} template? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 07:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I had done it here. I feel the same. Too many templates make the talk page cluttered. The new template mentions them anyway. - Ganeshk (talk) 16:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

There might be a problem. For example, WikiProject Indian cities prescribes guidelines (MoS, etc.) for the article. Replacing the template would make the guidelines virtually inaccessible to new users. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Addition of other Wikiprojects in the templates

I have added a couple of other Wikiprojects in the template. They are "Wikiproject Indian cinema" and "Wikiproject History of India". I wanted to know whether we should add all India related Wikiprojects to the template. What about those that are closely related but not completely related (like Wikiproject Hinduism)? — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Usage of portal parameter

Why does the portal paramater has to be used in conjuction with "class=FA" only. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

It does not have to to be used only with FA. It can be used by itself. Most FAs do get posted on the portal. So you see them all tagged. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the code so that it does not look for FA. Thanks for pointing that out. - Ganeshk (talk) 00:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reg: Assessment

(copied from User_talk:Ganeshk) Hi Ganesh,

Even as I was assessing the articles, I got into a dilemma. I thought it would be great to categorise the assessed articles by month (say, Categories: India Articles Quality Assessed in Oct 2006), so that we can go back to that category sometime later (may be three months) and reassess the article again.

I wanted to include a date stamp as well in the assessment section of the WP India Template, saying This article was rated -Class according to assessment criteria on so-and-so date.

I tinkered around with the WP India template to do both these tasks, i.e., categorising, and time-stamping. It should be small add-on only, yet, I wasn't sure about the naming conventions for the parameters expected in the Template, as well as how a change in the template will affect the current usage.

Could you help me fix them into the WP India template?? It would help very much in systematic assessment and re-assessment. Cheers -- Chez ^{(Discuss / Email)} • 22:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

That's a nice idea. I have not seen any other projects do that. Let me work on it and come up with a prototype. I will post here. -- Ganeshk (talk) 23:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Chez, I am ready with a prototype. Let me know if it's good. The template adds articles to the category, [[Category:India articles assessed in Month Year]].

Usage:

 {{WP India|class=A|importance=Low|assess-date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} 

Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 03:35, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

It is really good. Please implement it yourself. Cheers -- Chez ^{(Discuss / Email)} • 05:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I will implement it now. -- Ganeshk (talk) 05:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review

There is a slight error in the template. When the parameter "peer-review=yes" is added to the template the red link that it generates is of the form [[:Article name|request has been made]]. The colon shouldn't be there. I think this line - A '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Peer review/{{ARTICLESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|request has been made]]''' - in the template coding is to blame. Can someone fix it? - Aksi_great (talk) 20:04, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blank lines at top

This template produces blank lines above it. You can see this at the top of this page (removing the blank line between templates does not remove the space), and it is somewhat unappealing. Another editor referred to the "unsightly space" in Talk:History of saffron. This space can be removed by combining some lines early in the template. If the beginning of the template, currently

 {{#ifeq:{{{literature|}}}|yes| {{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}} {{!}}- {{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian literature]] {{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|WikiProject Indian literature]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian literature. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|project page]]''}}. {{!}}} }} {{#ifeq:{{{cinema|}}}|yes| {{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}} {{!}}- {{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian cinema]] {{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|WikiProject Indian cinema]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian cinema. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|project page]]''}}. {{!}}} }} 

is replaced with

 {{#ifeq:{{{literature|}}}|yes|{{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}} {{!}}- {{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian literature]] {{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|WikiProject Indian literature]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian literature. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian literature|project page]]''}}. {{!}}} }}{{#ifeq:{{{cinema|}}}|yes|{{{!}} {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}} {{!}}- {{!}} [[Image:Tricolor.png|{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|30px|50px}}|Wikiproject Indian cinema]] {{!}} This article is within the scope of '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|WikiProject Indian cinema]]'''{{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Indian cinema. If you would like to participate, please visit the ''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cinema|project page]]''}}. {{!}}} }} 

it seems to fix it at least for the four possible combinations of literature and cinema. Gimmetrow 18:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. Gimmetrow 20:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Typos

It says in the explanation that you use tamilnadu to say an article has something to do with WikiProject Punjab. — Nobleeagle ^[TALK] [C] 06:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I fixed it. — Ambuj Saxena (☎) 10:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Someone add importance scale for WP:WINDPA

Someone pls. add importance scale for WP:WINDPA. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 05:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replacing an image

Image:Crystal 128 kdmconfig.png is gonna be deleted soon from the Wikimedia Commons as a duplicate of Image:Crystal 128 kuser.png. I'd appreciate it if someone could replace the former with the latter in the template. Yonatan ^talk 13:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for the notification.--thunderboltz^(TALK) 14:43, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that was much quicker than I thought it'd be. :P Yonatan ^talk 14:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nesting fix

Replace the contents of this template with the sandboxed version at User:Disavian/Sandbox/WP India. The change is that most nested templates tell you the article class while they are nested; currently, this template does not. For a demonstration of the change, see User talk:Disavian/Sandbox/WP India. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 05:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I have implemented this change. Thanks for the suggestion. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 05:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Tricolor.png

{{editprotected}} I've created Image:Tricolor.svg to replace Image:Tricolor.png. And seriously? a WikiProject Template totally disabled from editing by established users? Regardless, I notice that you folks seem to know how to fix the nesting problem that arises with the show/hide things. I'd like to do that with {{WikiProject Dallas-Fort Worth}} if anyone who knows how to do it has time... -- drumguy8800 C T 17:59, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I changed the images. The protection is more or less standard for templates that are included in a lot of pages, but you could make an argument at WP:RFPP if you would like it to be unprotected. You should ask at Wikipedia:Requested templates about fixing the nesting issue. CMummert · talk 18:22, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image replacement request

{{editprotected}} Please replace the image Image:Nuvola apps kcontrol.png with Image:Icon tools.png as it was marked as a duplicate on Wikimedia Commons. The image is protected there. Thanks. Siebrand 19:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 20:46, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] we need a "television" notice

Since WikiProject Indian television is the newest workgroup, we need a notice template like WikiProject Indian cinema has. - Bhavesh.Chauhan 19:00, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal link

Please add {{Portal|India}} to the template, directly before the text "This article is within the scope..." Thanks, Cirt (talk) 15:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC).

It's in the template code but commented out. Was it removed for a reason? Gimmetrow 15:38, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• I don't know, but many other WikiProject templates give a link to the relevant associated portal in the WikiProject template. It helps to organize coordination between both the WikiProject and the Portal of the exact same topic.
  • Here are some good examples of how this is used in conjunction with WikiProjects, and Portals, (both of which happen to be Wikipedia:Featured portals.) -- Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology. Cirt (talk) 16:02, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Please place {{editprotected}} with your request rather than the top of the page. Since there seems to be a question of whether this should be included, I have N Not done this for now. I have directed people at Portal talk:India and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India to this section. —Random832 17:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• I was going to add it (and in the right spot...), but then I saw it was already there, commented out. I just wanted to know why it was commented out, but I guess I'll have to dig through archives and diffs and figure that out myself. Gimmetrow 19:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• • Portal was originally added 28 September 2006 and then removed 13 October 2006. I can't find a clear indication why. Gimmetrow 19:17, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• • After all the subproject texts, there is

    <!--{{portalpar|India}}-->

  • This should be replaced with:

    {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes||{{portalpar|India}}}}

  • The portal link would otherwise clutter the small form. Gimmetrow 19:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• There are several India related portals apart from Portal:India (such as Portal:Kerala, Portal:West Bengal, Portal:Government of India, etc). As such, most of the India-related pages come under more than one portal. Hence we use certain portal specific tags (see Template:WP India#Usage) to link to these portals. See Talk:Kerala (click the [show] button) for an example of how this is implemented. This is probably the reason why a link to Portal:India is not given in the main body of the template.--thunderboltz^(TALK) 14:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

• I had removed the portal link to save space on the box, was trying to hide as much as I can to make the box smaller. As Thunderboltz points out above, many portals (within India project scope) may apply for a particular topic. Displaying the root one alone is not helpful IMO. Other projects don't display them too. Would like to know your thoughts. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 04:35, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I figured it probably had to do with the multiple subportals. OK with me. Gimmetrow 04:44, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update the Vote.png image

{{editprotected}}
Could the Vote.png image in the template be changed to the updated version: Vote.svg? Thanks! ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by It Is Me Here (talk • contribs) 20:34, March 13, 2008 (UTC)

Y Done - Nihiltres^{t.l} 03:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessments by date

Hi, this looks like the only project going around keep tracks of assessments by date. I really don't think that's particularly helpful as Category:India articles assessed by month is obviously missing a number of years. I would really suggest changing the template so that all the assessed article are in place, keeping the parameter and letting someone get a bot to figure it out fairly. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 04:02, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

It's purpose was to allow for revisiting the articles at a later time to revise the assessment. It is done manually by adding the "assess-date" parameter. Not sure why you want the template to be changed, since a bot could be written to fill the gaps. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 22:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newer workgroups

I think some of the newer workgroups paramaters are missing like Wikipedia:WikiProject Orissa ,Wikipedia:WikiProject Punjab (India) etc. Can someone fix this up ?? -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 04:10, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

• I am working on creating workgroups for each of the Indian states. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 05:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

  assam=yes also does not get mapped to WikiProject Assam. --GDibyendu (talk) 15:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

• Y Done Assam, Orissa, Haryana and the rest of the states have been added to the template. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 20:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indian cinema

Would it be possible to also transclude the Indian cinema workgroup into a displayed line within the main India project template, instead of having the parameter generate two separate blocks? Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 05:31, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

literature also gets displayed like that. So, if possible, change this too. Thanks. --GDibyendu (talk) 06:00, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

television too. --GDibyendu (talk) 07:48, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Ganesh? Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 07:09, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Giro, I have added this request to my to-do list. Will get to it when I find time. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 14:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

 :) Frankly yes, his efforts and contributions for WP:INDIA is really appreciable -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - 07:13, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Y Done I have changed the template to display cinema, literature and television banners inside the banner. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 02:39, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 04:18, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Remove C-Class

{{edit protected}} Per request of the assessment department; please remove the ability to assess an article as C-Class. The team has decided not to make any changes at all until next year; and even then may decide to not use C-Class. The following needs to be removed:

 |FA|Fa|fa||FL|Fl|fl|A|a|GA|Ga|ga|B|b|C|c|Start|start|Stub|stub= 

to

 FA|Fa|fa||FL|Fl|fl|A|a|GA|Ga|ga|B|b|Start|start|Stub|stub=  

and

 }}   |C|c=[[Category:C-Class India articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]  {{#switch:{{{importance}}}  |Top|top=[[Category:C-Class India articles of Top-importance|{{PAGENAME}}]]  |High|high=[[Category:C-Class India articles of High-importance|{{PAGENAME}}]]  |Mid|mid=[[Category:C-Class India articles of Mid-importance|{{PAGENAME}}]]  |Low|low=[[Category:C-Class India articles of Low-importance|{{PAGENAME}}]]  |#default=[[Category:C-Class India articles of unknown-importance|{{PAGENAME}}]]  

Needs to be removed.

Thanks! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Cheers, PeterSymonds (talk) 07:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category (Start Class, Unknown importance)

{{edit protected}}

Could someone please change the Category Start-Class Indian politics with Unknown importance are added to from Category: Start-Class Indian politics articles of unknown-importance to Category: Start-Class Indian politics articles of Unknown-importance? See Category: Indian politics articles by quality and importance. Thank you --Joshua Issac (talk) 22:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Y Done. Per your request, I changed the "unknown" to an "Unknown". It looks like there are a few other instances of "unknown" in the categories, should those also be amended? UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 12:39, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adding C Class - mistake made

Change ANY page with this template (usually talk pages of articles that are related to India) - and a preview will show something is wrong! Please fix it ASAP. I think an extra }} has been introduced in this latest change. Fix ASAP. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 08:39, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Minor change

{{editprotected}} Could the noinclude section at the bottom be changed from:

 <noinclude> {{pp-template|small=yes}} {{intricate template}} == Usage == __NOTOC__ {{Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner}} [[Category:WikiProject banners|India]] [[Category:WikiProject India|WP India]] </noinclude> 

to

 <noinclude> {{pp-template|small=yes}} {{intricate template}} {{documentation|1=Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner|content= == Usage == __NOTOC__ {{Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner}} }} [[Category:WikiProject banners|India]] [[Category:WikiProject India|WP India]] </noinclude> 

Thanks, -- 86.159.43.237 (talk) 19:06, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Y Done I created doc subpage. Ruslik (talk) 09:26, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Why did you remove the last part? The categories should have been there. Probably, this is the reason why Article Alerts page did not get populated today!--GDibyendu (talk) 05:51, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Categories are on the doc subpage, and the template is properly categorized. Ruslik (talk) 06:09, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

OK. I guess it is the problem of usual delay in category updates (ref: "This list may sometimes be slightly out of date"). Right now the two categories are not listing this template, hopefully it will come up soon. But, if you had not moved the categories to doc page, there would not have been any issue (the big issue is Article Alerts page could not show today's data).--GDibyendu (talk) 07:00, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

It is now in Category:WikiProject_banners. Alerts should work next time. Ruslik (talk) 07:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] old article name

The peer-review flag causes a link to the pr page probably using PAGENAME info. But, if the article name has changed since then, the link does not work. The template oldpeerreview provides a parameter for mentioning old article name. If something similar can be done, then that would be good. Example. Talk:Shripat Amrit Dange.--GDibyendu (talk) 10:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] A.R.Rajaraja Varma

KeralaPanini A.R. Rajaraja Varma was not born at Vallikkunnu.He is a descendant of the Parappanad family which fled their abode and took asylum at Changanassery in Travancore during the invasion of Tipu.Members of the family also stay at Haripad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.88.229.106 (talk) 12:32, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

And what exctly does this have to do with this template? --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] image-needed

Would it be possible to change the location of where articles are placed from Category:India articles needing images to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in India which is a syntax more in common with most photo requests?

{{editprotected}}

I'll leave it a couple of days in case members of the WikiProject have any concerns about this. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Y Done. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:44, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Need template for the WikiProject Indian roads working group like this ? {{WP India|class=Template|importance=NA|roads=yes}}

I have uploaded the needed image File:India-roads.svg and also experimented successfully in my User:GDibyendu/sandbox3 and tested in User_talk:GDibyendu/sandbox4. Someone with admin privileges please update. --GDibyendu (talk) 14:25, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

We need {{WP India|roads=yes}} for the WikiProject Indian roads. Ganesh?? -- Tinu Cherian - 07:05, 27

It is done. I have added Dibyendu's code to the template. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 07:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Ganesh. I will now create the WP1.0 assessment categories for the projects. -- Tinu Cherian - 07:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Y Done : See project talk page for details -- Tinu Cherian - 03:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I was thinking of a transport workgroup instead. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:04, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Thats is a nice idea road,railway,airway,ports and inland waterways. Is it big WP ? --Naveenpf (talk) 11:38, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Practically eerything that GDibyendu, SBC-YPR, and I have added to Transport in India. There is a template at the end of the page, which SBC_YPR, recently added, more or less the same as that. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WP:INCOTM

I have made some changes related to this in User:GDibyendu/sandbox3 and tested in User talk:GDibyendu/sandbox4. If this looks fine, please update.--GDibyendu (talk) 19:01, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Updated considering backward compatibility issues: old 'collaboration of the weeek' and failed collaborations will still use old parameters; similar parameters for the month are now added (and not replaced).--GDibyendu (talk) 12:56, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Geography redirect

{{editprotected}} Could you please change:

 Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian geography 

to

 Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of India 

as the former redirects to the latter. --Siddhant (talk) 05:28, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Y Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:21, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Update

On the sandbox there is an updated version of this template using {{WPBannerMeta}}. I have carefully checked that it replicates all the current functionality. Would there be any concerns about using it? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:51, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I will give it a check to make sure all the functionality is available in the new template. Please give me some time. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:58, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Certainly, let me know if you have any questions. The class mask for the template is held at Template:WP India/class; should be self-explanatory. The only minor difference is the move from Unassessed-Class to Unassessed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:39, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I got a chance to test it. The new template does not seem to replicate all the functionality. Please check the categories on the following pages:

• Template:WP India/sandbox/testcases - Uses orginal template
• Template_talk:WP India/sandbox/testcases - Uses new template

We do category intersection on the template that helps us build tables like this, Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Statistics. The new template is also not creating the main project's category and workgroup's main category (Example: Category:WikiProject Chennai articles). Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 02:58, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay, wow, you like your categories! I've added the required functionality for India and Chennai. Before I do all the others can I just check some things:

• Do all the subprojects use the quality/importance intersection categories?
• I assume that you are not interested in the extra classes (e.g. Category-class) for this purpose? Just the standard FA-A-GA-B-C-Start-Stub-FL-List classes?

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I like our categories...I think these project templates put too much emphasis on interface. :) If there is a way to hide the categories from the bottom of the talk page, that would be great.

Back to the testing: 1) yes, all sub-projects use quality/importance intersection categories. 2) category, template and extra classes do not use intersection...just the standard quality classes (FL, GA etc.).

I tested the category class, the new template is not ignoring the importance value. Please check the Template:WP India/sandbox/testcases again. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 12:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay, so the way importance is treated on these non-articles is as follows:

• If no importance is specified, then NA-importance will automatically be used. (Therefore every article gets an importance and the following table will add up to the correct total.)

Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
273	765	3,301	10,254	7,770	50,290	72,653

• If an importance is specified then this will be used. Therefore it is possible to have a High-importance category in case that is wanted.

Yes, categories could be hidden if desired by adding {{hidden cat}} to all of them. But usually there are not hidden. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:17, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay that works for me. Please proceed with your changes. Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 21:54, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

WOSlinker has kindly added all these categories now. Please can you check again? Also, is it desirable for taskforces to appear in the nested display, such as the maps project as shown below? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

This template is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject India / Maps  (Rated C-Class, Low-importance) IndiaWikipedia:WikiProject IndiaTemplate:WP IndiaIndia articles India portal v • d • e This template is within the scope of WikiProject India, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of India-related topics. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.  C  This template has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale.  Low  This template has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This template is supported by Wikiproject Indian maps.

The taskforce display when nested will be good. I would like to report a few things:

1. I was surpised pre=yes worked in the new template. We had a big discussion with some Pakistani editors about the banner posting Indian flag to pre-Indepedence articles. The pre=yes was the neutral outcome of the discussion.
2. If no class value is added, the new banner is automatically adding Template class. Is that a normal thing?
3. We had customized the Indian banner a bit with the field parameter. This can used when you are not really starting a project, but would like to check the feasibility for one. Category:India articles using field parameter are the articles that are marked with this parameter. We got to decide what to with these.
4. There are still some missing intersection categories that apply to NA importance.

Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 02:27, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

(outdenting)

1. That's called attention to detail ;)
2. On a template talk page, yes the banner will automatically deduce class=Template. Similarly with categories, portals and images.
3. Hmm, I have added some support for {{{field}}} in the sandbox now. Do you really want the quality and importance assessment as well? Because it seems that most of the necessary categories don't exist. So I've disabled them for now. Do you also need field1, field2 and field3?
4. I thought the NA categories were being supressed so I don't quite understand that. Maybe WOSlinker will be able to fix that.

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

• I added the remaining nested text for the taskforces.
• The NA-importance categories are now being suppressed. This can be re-enabled in future if required.
• Y Banner updated. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Categories awry

I happened to notice that the categories associated by adding this template seem to have gone awry. Please look into WP:IN1S and you will find all the totals columns have very low counts. These seem to come from the 'project level' categories, like Category:WikiProject Indian cities articles. I also noticed that the project level category is not found in the talk pages either even for the handful that are shown in the category.

Is this the new intended behaviour of this template? Should the statistics processing be changed to pick the totals by adding up individual counts? For example see the first one Category:WikiProject Indian geography articles - the content from this category shows a total of 27 on the statistics page. Moreover the talk pages do not show this category.

Hope the last two editors (admin) can look into this aspect. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 12:25, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I see what you mean. It seems to have been forgotten. I can certainly fix it, just give me a couple of days. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:07, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I've made the changes in the sandbox. Just needs checking & copying over. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:09, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks WOS. Y Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:20, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

WP:IN1S looks good now. Thanks. VasuVR (talk, contribs) 15:32, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Is Category:WikiProject India (media) articles supposed to be used somehow? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

That was created for "field=media" parameter. WP:IN1S is still not good. The sub-projects do not have a listing of categories, templates etc. They are all showing zeroes. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 02:11, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

I do not remember that working in the past either (last year and half). FYI and if that can help in figuring out the problem... VasuVR (talk, contribs) 02:59, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I think there are some errors on that page. Certainly, the problem is not with the template. You know you can use parser functions instead of a bot to calculate these numbers? That means they are always up to date. For example, {{Articles by Quality|topic=Andhra Pradesh}} produces:

FA	A	GA	B	C	Start	Stub	FL	List	Category	Disambig	Image	Needed	Portal	Redirect	Template	NA	???	Total
6	5	11	23	12	191	1,959	5	12	68	2	0	0	0	0	36	1	63	2,394

There is also a template which can handle category intersections, e.g. {{Articles by Quality and Importance|topic=Andhra Pradesh}} produces:

Andhra Pradesh articles		Importance					Refresh
		Top	High	Mid	Low	???	Total
Quality	FA	0	0	0	0	1	6
	A	0	0	0	0	0	5
	GA	0	0	0	0	6	11
	B	1	5	3	0	9	23
	C	0	1	1	1	4	12
	Start	2	13	36	13	122	191
	Stub	2	14	89	97	1752	1959
	FL	0	0	0	0	0	5
	List	0	0	0	0	11	12
	???	0	0	0	0	0	5
	Total	14	42	137	121	1979	314

Have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Assessment/Statistics/new and see what you think. Unfortunately, there is a limit of 500 of these functions on one page, so the ones at the bottom are not working. It would be necessary to split this page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:42, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Looks good... I have a suggestion then. Split it in such a way that all the state task forces are moved to a separate page and the non-states items are in the main statistics page (and link from each page to the other). VasuVR (talk, contribs) 16:55, 10 November 2009 (UTC)