User:Pathoschild/Projects/Standardised header

Pathoschild[ userspace map ] (Project Standardised header

This project documents the transition from myriad header and navigation templates, most carried over from other projects or improvised, to a single standardised template. The template was developed with discussion ("Standardised page infobox", WikiProject IGD) 21 January 2006, and implemented 26 January 2006 following a unanimous vote ("Standardised article header", Scriptorium).

Before standardisation

Byline method

This was usually written manually, but the {{byline}} template was occasionally used as well. Several variations existed, as listed.

1. < Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Crime and Punishment
   by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. <Fyodor Dostoevsky
   Crime and Punishment

Navigator templates

The navigator templates, used on roughly 40 pages, did not allow empty parameters. They used multiple templates to cope with different situations. In order, the templates below are {{NavigatorBegin}} and {{Navigator}}.

Crime and Punishment

>>

Part I

Part I

<<

Crime and Punishment

>>

Part III

{{Navigation}}

The {{Navigation}} template, used on roughly 10 pages, used the conditional programming template {{HideIfEmpty}} to hide the next and back links if they were undefined. This template depended on the title format "Title/section", which was not common at the time. It did not allow custom naming of the next and back links.

« Chapter XX

Crime and Punishment

Chapter XXII »

Chap templates

The chap templates, used on over 100 pages (over 700 pages in the case of {{Chapter_foot}}), also used {{HideIfEmpty}} . The template depended on the title format "Title: Chapter X" (exclusively "Chapter"), which was somewhat common among books. An alternative template, {{chap_simple}} , was created for works that didn't use that title format. In order, the templates below are {{Chap}} , {{Chap_simple}} , and {{Chapter_foot}} .

< Chapter 1

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Chapter 3 >

< Prior Ballad

Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. Service

Next Ballad >

< Prior chapter	Chapter title	Next chapter >
none	Start in Life	Slavery and Escape

Proposals

Initial proposal

The initial proposal was based on the Chap templates¹. They used blank default values to hide parameters that were left undefined, and a parameter for editorial notes.

< Part I

Crime and Punishment (Part II) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Part III >

Other sections: Translator's Preface | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Epilogue

Final proposal

The final proposal used a colour scheme that was previously unused on Wikisource. The notes parameter was redesigned to minimise the appearance of stacked boxes. As of 16 September 2006, this template was used on 29826 pages.

←Part I

Crime and Punishment (Part II) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Part III→

Other sections: Translator's Preface | Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Epilogue