User talk:Frietjes
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| This user tries to assume good faith and hopes you will as well. |
Barnstar for you!
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| I've looked at your tireless contribution to templates. So i believe this barnstar should suit you. Ibrahim ebi (talk) 15:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for your help to improve the Adopt-a-typo template. Much appreciated! Jason Quinn (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC) |
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| For getting better performance and adding options to the chess diagram template. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC) |
- Let me just second this (since you've got three on this page already). Thank you for all those well-framed edit requests you made to the convert sub-templates. ~Adjwilley (talk) 20:05, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
| Thank you for editing Sandhani page. Dr. Kabir Hossain (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC) |
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| Module:testcase table is great! Thanks for making it! —hike395 (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC) |
| The SpongeBob SquarePants Bubble Award | ||
| Hey Frietjes! Thanks for your wonderful and helpful contributions in SpongeBob related areas. I really appreciate it. Keep it up! Thanks and happy editing! :) Mediran (t • c) 03:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC) |
| The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
| Thank you for being observant to other's (i.e. me) ham-fisted hacking and repairing damaged templates without fuss. You rock! FruitMonkey (talk) 21:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC) |
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| For your work correcting the "year" field in 1000s of uses of {{Infobox Australian place}}. Much appreciated. Mattinbgn (talk) 19:53, 1 February 2014 (UTC) |
| Wow. That was a quick work here! Happy editing! |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Thanks for you work on tables and templates! -- Wywin (talk | contribs) 18:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC) |
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Thanks for all your work replacing instances of {{convert/spell}} with the new Lua compliant {{convert|...|spell=in}} AdmrBoltz 20:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC) |
| The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
| Frietjes, I would like to thank you for taking care and fixing the oil field infobox even without asking. It was really kind of you. Beagel (talk) 17:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC) |
| A kitten for you!
Thanks for all the updating of the population data you are doing on Queensland places! Great work! |
| The Golden Doubloon of Anatomy | ||
| You have been awarded the prestigious Golden Doubloon for your services to the WP:ANATOMY WikiProject. Thanks! |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Thank you for adding team colors for college basketball players. Temple of the Mousy (talk) 19:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC) |
tireless template help --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC) |
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| Thank you so much for your fix at Template:Infobox winery. You've just fixed something that had been a small annoyance to me and probably others for a long time. SchreiberBike talk 00:46, 3 April 2014 (UTC) |
| Nice work! | |
| Thanks so much for the work on the Nanjing districts template! Your input on the template itself and placement within articles is extremely helpful! I had posted two questions about how to format it and you resolved both issues! It's very much appreciated and looks really nice now. CaroleHenson (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2014 (UTC) |
| The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| Nice work on {{Taxation}}! You do a lot of work in neglected areas, and it's always a big improvement. bobrayner (talk) 12:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC) |
| Thank you for patrolling unused templates and nominating them for deletion. The cleanup is very useful. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC) |
| The Original Barnstar | |
| Thanks for the article changes :) Viktor O. Ledenyov (talk) 14:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC) |
| The College football Barnstar | ||
| Frietjes, thank you for your excellent work streamlining the color coding used in navboxes for college football and other college sports subjects. Jweiss11 (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC) |
| The Working Woman's Barnstar | |
| For your unceasing work on the many WP Templates, I hereby award you this Barnstar YSSYguy (talk) 23:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC) |
| The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | ||
| A big thanks for your help with putting in grid-numbers in info-boxes: it works like dream! With best wishes, Huldra (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2015 (UTC) |
| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
For your endeavor in template cleanup, where I sometimes feel overwhelmed, and wish I were more like you. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 19:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC) |

tireless template help
Thank you for quality help in all kinds of template questions, even creating a template that should not be needed rather than "some hack of div tags and html tables", finding solutions with sense and offering them with kindness, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
| Thanks for correcting my sourcing mistake on Defense of the Reich. Much appreciated. GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 19:58, 17 June 2015 (UTC) |
| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| for the amazing work you do everyday and the help you provide to the CHECKWIKI project. Magioladitis (talk) 11:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC) |
| A kitten for you! |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing this! |
| And thats a high five to you😃 |
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| Thanks for all you good contribution. It was greatly appreciated👋 Brilloman12 (talk) 05:51, 1 August 2015 (UTC) |
| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| For you hard work at cleaning up templates. Just checked my watch list and it BLEW UP with all the changes you made. Keep up the awesome work! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC) |
hi, thank u for editing in my page user :) |
For helping me today! Magioladitis (talk) 16:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC) |
| The Teamwork Barnstar | |
| Thanks for monitoring the talk page for Module:College color/data and adding the support for references proactively. —Bagumba (talk) 02:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For improving ISBN checks! Magioladitis (talk) 18:58, 21 December 2015 (UTC) |
| Cookies makes me happy. I hope hey make you too :) Magioladitis (talk) 22:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC) |
| The Template Barnstar | ||
| Thanks a lot for merging {{Infobox Jain temple}} with {{Infobox religious building}}. You deserve this. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:02, 23 February 2016 (UTC) |
| The Cure Award | |
| In 2015 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs, and we would love to collaborate further. |
| The Tolkien Barnstar | ||
| You have been awarded a barnstar by WikiProject Middle-earth for your tireless effort of cleaning up template shortcuts. De728631 (talk) 19:16, 5 March 2016 (UTC) |
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My wikilove again and again!! Magioladitis (talk) 19:31, 9 March 2016 (UTC) |
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
| Thanks for your contribution to the draft of the National Science Museum at Maynooth AugusteBlanqui (talk) 19:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Thanks for all of your help at Module:College color... you ROCK! It would be no where where it is today without you!!! 🎓 Corkythehornetfan 🎓 23:09, 11 May 2016 (UTC) |
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Trying to make up for being nasty. Was having a bad day and you, unfairly, paid the price. |
| The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
| This Barnstar of Diligence is awarded to Frietjes for persistence and diligence in emptying Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, which contained tens of thousands of pages with errors, over the last two years. Thanks, from one gnome to another. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:16, 28 October 2016 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Thank you, template guru! bd2412 T 21:10, 20 September 2016 (UTC) |
-For solving the uniform riddle we've had for 6 years, putting your mad tech skills available to the Wiki community, fast and cheerfully! --Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:54, 21 September 2016 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For your continued assistance with modules and templates. Thank you for being such a joy to work with and for being so responsive to requests for assistance. Keep up the awesome work. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For your continued work on templates, particularly your dedication to templates that are insanely complicated, such as Template:Infobox country. Everyone wanted that template converted to use {{Infobox}}, but no one (including myself) wanted to put in the time and effort to make it happen. Way to step up and get it done! Keep up the amazing work. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:35, 22 December 2016 (UTC) |
| The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
| Thank you User:Frietjes for those amazing improvements you made to Holocaust infoboxes: concentration camp and Holocaust event. This is what I call, putting advanced knowledge of formatting into the best possible use for the benefit of our project. All best, and thank you again, Poeticbent talk 16:02, 7 March 2017 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For eliminating mainspace articles in Category:Pages using infobox map with x or y by creating location maps, I award you this barnstar! Thanks so much! —hike395 (talk) 05:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC) |
| Four years! |
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
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| for your outstanding work in developing a technical template to convert coordinates from German to English Wiki format; something which has caused problems for years and will now save thousands of nugatory editor hours. Well done and thank you! Bermicourt (talk) 17:35, 6 June 2017 (UTC) |
| The Original Barnstar | ||
| For your wonderful work! Huldra (talk) 21:47, 1 September 2017 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For your incredible work on Module:Sidebar games events. Not just the fact that you got that done, but you are such a pleasure to work with. You have a wonderful attitude, are eager to work with others and help a n00b like myself. You are truly a stellar wikipedian. THANK YOU! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:29, 8 September 2017 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| thanks for being so helpful —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:40, 19 December 2017 (UTC) |
| The Original Barnstar | |
| Thank you for your valuable contributions! You are a valuable contributor on Wikipedia! Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:26, 5 February 2018 (UTC) |
| The Original Barnstar | |
| Hi Frietjes I Respect Your opinion, I try To merge these pages to the main Volleyball box page but It seems technically hard for me, I tell the creator of volleyball box page to add these categories, He didin't Reply at all So I have created these pages I think its a useful solution. so please I hope to keep these pages, cause when you delete it all. It will deform the panorama in other linked pages. thanks Elly mino (talk) 22:05, 23 February 2018 (UTC) |
| The Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
| Well Thank You for your Last contributions, Great Work Elly mino (talk) 13:51, 24 February 2018 (UTC) |
| WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award | ||
| Thank you for your help in creating Module:Location map/data/Japan complete. It will prove useful in a number of articles. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:32, 1 March 2018 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Great work on several templates, especially sports-related ones like Template:Sports_rivalry_series_table. It's made them more compact and easier to use. Keep up the good work! WuTang94 (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC) |
| A goat for you!
Just a reminder that you are awesome. Left a message on your page asking for some help, and MINUTES later, you were all over it. People like you are what make Wikipedia awesome. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:22, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
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| Six years! |
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| The Special Barnstar | |
| Many many thanks for note translation on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ggerly/sandbox Ggerly (talk) 16:17, 14 October 2019 (UTC) |
| Editor of the Week | ||
| Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your diligent editing. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
| Frietjes |
| Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 8, 2020 |
| Persistent and dedicated work implementing and replacing tens of thousands of uses with Module:Sports table without much recognition. One of the top edit counts of all time with an amazing 750000 edits. |
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| Notable work |
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| Seven years! |
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| The Template Barnstar | ||
| To Frietjes for transforming the WNBA rosters. Beautifully done. Thank you! -SusanLesch (talk) 02:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC) |
| The da Vinci Barnstar | ||
| For awesome help with templates always willingly given. Schwede66 19:11, 20 June 2020 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Just wanted to say a massive thanks for your work on the Election results template. Not only is it a big help for getting some consistency in presentation, but the automatic totalling and percentage calculation has helped identify several errors in the tables (both from editors mistranscribing numbers from sources, and mistakes in the sources themselves) by comparing the automatically-calculated totals/percentages with those given in the original tables/sources. This will be a big help in maintaining accuracy! Number 57 22:32, 8 September 2020 (UTC) |
Precious anniversary
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| Merit Badge Sash Award | ||
| Thank you for your dedication to Scouting! --evrik (talk) 20:24, 26 April 2021 (UTC) |
| thank you for the help!! I am new to this whole process :) Heather Brittany Xaricam 17:51, 21 July 2021 (UTC) |
| The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| Forgot to give you one of these for having done some large unseen work to remove NavFrame. :^) Izno (talk) 17:36, 20 September 2021 (UTC) |
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| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For your script findargdups. Truly a wonderful tool. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 03:11, 26 May 2022 (UTC) |
| The Template Barnstar | ||
| Your tireless contribution to templates, and template syntax's has been noticed. So I believe this barnstar should be awarded to you. The Emperor of Byzantium (talk) 15:12, 24 October 2022 (UTC) |


Frietjes,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 18:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
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Abishe (talk) 18:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Frietjes,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 19:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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— Moops ⋠T⋡ 19:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)| Been away for a few years due to health issues. Just dropped in for a bit to do some editing and wanted to say howdy! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:59, 20 January 2023 (UTC) |
| The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
| Amazing work in fixing all the broken #section-h transclusions! Thanks a million! |
- Always precious
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
| Thanks for changing volleyball templates to Module:Sports table/Volleyball in every Volleyball competitions related articles. ♒️ 98TIGERIUS 🐯 17:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC) |

Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
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| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| Congratulations on one million edits! Seven digits worth of edits speak for themselves. Best wishes! Red Director (talk) 22:34, 14 December 2024 (UTC) |
| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| There isn't a barnstar for most article page moves in 24 hour period so this will have to do! Liz Read! Talk! 01:50, 9 January 2024 (UTC) |
| The Special Barnstar | |
| Thank you for helping out with the article I was writing, I appreciate it! Have a nice day! I am a new user, someday I'll write an article (talk) 20:38, 28 February 2024 (UTC) |
| The Editor's Barnstar | |
| MY GOD! thank you man for helping me there! i figured out easy solution later but man... im starting to love english wikipedia and its community... thank you man!!!!!!!!!!! ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ TALK 22:35, 12 February 2025 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| Just a little thank you for your AMAZING scripts. I’m talking about user:Frietjes/findargdups mainly. Hope you are well! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:13, 3 September 2025 (UTC) |
| thank you for your contributions!! :D xRozuRozu (t • c) 21:03, 20 September 2024 (UTC) |
| The Technical Barnstar | |
| For your tireless work on Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2025_August_25#Culture_sidebars_part_3 :) —Matrix ping mewhen u reply (t? - c) 17:09, 24 September 2025 (UTC) |
help
Can you help me merge {{8TeamBracket-AFC}} and {{8TeamBracket-AFC-2Leg}} into Module:Team bracket? Thanks,Hhkohh (talk) 16:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Module:Historical populations
Hi Frietjes, some years ago you added graphs to the {{Historical populations}} template, now a module. Since the Graph extension has been retired, that should be replaced with the Chart extension. Do you know how to do that, and would you have time to? Many thanks in advance! Markussep Talk 10:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Markussep, it looks like this is going to be challenging. as far as I can tell, to use the chart extensions you need to have a separate data page (for example, see Gmina Nadarzyn). you can't just feed the data into the extension and render the chart the way that the graph extension works. unless I am missing some hidden feature, we have a couple choices. (1) use say Module:Chart or another bar-chart module which doesn't use the chart extension, but I don't know if that has rendering problems, (2) create commons population data pages for rendering these graphs, and hopefully there is an easy way to parse that data in Module:Historical populations for the text version as well. I would say that option 1 is going to be the simple option, but option 2 seems to be more in the spirit of where the project is going, since the data can be shared between different language WP projects. please feel free to ask around to see if there are any other options, but this is my current perception of what is going on. Frietjes (talk) 15:37, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Frietjes, I don't think anyone is going to create data pages for all instances where the Historical populations template is used. Maybe Module:Chart would work, I hope it can be made to look nicer than in the examples. I do not know of any other option... Markussep Talk 15:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Markussep, coming back to this thread, it is possible to create on demand bar plots, see User:Frietjes/timeline for example. it looks like
<timeline>...</timeline>does supportLineDatabut I haven't figured out if it's easy to change to bars to lines (requires pixel coordinates instead of year/pop coordinates). maybe there are other options? Frietjes (talk) 21:47, 15 April 2026 (UTC)- Hi Frietjes, I think a bar chart would be good enough, it's a lot better than what we have now (nothing). I saw the LineData option, nice, but that probably requires a lot of calculation / difficult programming. Do you think you could make something similar to what they did at French Wikipedia (fr:Modèle:Histogramme population manuel, see e.g. fr:Ury)? Markussep Talk 07:32, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, I made some changes (see what the chart looks like at User:Frietjes/timeline). I tried to automatically compute the year label spacing and the ScaleMajor and ScaleMinor lines, but there may be some improvement there. Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- That's already pretty nice! I like the narrow bars. Could you make the bars the same colour as the standard {{Historical populations}} header? And maybe the chart a bit narrower, say 600px. Markussep Talk 15:00, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, I started integrating it into "historical populations". you can see what I have so far in the testcases. Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- I’m happy with this, thanks a lot! Does it work the same as it did with the old Graph extension, with the graph_pos parameter? Markussep Talk 19:55, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, yes, if we enable this in the live version, any pages using the old graph-pos parameter will start showing the graphs again. Frietjes (talk) 19:57, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, it's now live. let me know if you see any problems! Frietjes (talk) 20:07, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Frietjes, I've checked a few articles using the graph, and there are some small things I hope you can improve. At Évry-Courcouronnes, I specified "graph-pos = right", but the graph shows up under the infobox instead of next to the table. At Nice, I think the bars would be nicer (no pun intended) if they were narrower. Markussep Talk 14:49, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, I removed the "clear" for the floating image, but it is also possible to have the graph more "attached" to the side of the table (not sure which is better). I also changed the logic for the bar width to be based on the total number of years, so that should give a more uniform spacing for each year. if there are more years, then the bars will be more narrow. hopefully this is the desired result. if not, we can come up with something else. Frietjes (talk) 14:32, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, that's better, thanks! I think it would be nice to have the graph attached to the right of the table in case it's a one column table. Does that mean it gets the same height as well? Markussep Talk 14:54, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, okay, I have attached the graph to the side of the table. it would be hard to try to make them the same height since one use text dimensions and the other uses pixel dimensions. one can override the default graph height. Frietjes (talk) 21:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks again! I think it’s better like this than with equal heights, that would stretch the graph too much. Markussep Talk 05:29, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
- A proposal to make the graphs even nicer: would it be possible to tweak the y-axis a bit, for instance now if the maximum population is 1100, the top of the axis is 2000, could you make that 1500 (see e.g. Passa, Pyrénées-Orientales)? Markussep Talk 12:19, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks again! I think it’s better like this than with equal heights, that would stretch the graph too much. Markussep Talk 05:29, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, okay, I have attached the graph to the side of the table. it would be hard to try to make them the same height since one use text dimensions and the other uses pixel dimensions. one can override the default graph height. Frietjes (talk) 21:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, that's better, thanks! I think it would be nice to have the graph attached to the right of the table in case it's a one column table. Does that mean it gets the same height as well? Markussep Talk 14:54, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, I removed the "clear" for the floating image, but it is also possible to have the graph more "attached" to the side of the table (not sure which is better). I also changed the logic for the bar width to be based on the total number of years, so that should give a more uniform spacing for each year. if there are more years, then the bars will be more narrow. hopefully this is the desired result. if not, we can come up with something else. Frietjes (talk) 14:32, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Frietjes, I've checked a few articles using the graph, and there are some small things I hope you can improve. At Évry-Courcouronnes, I specified "graph-pos = right", but the graph shows up under the infobox instead of next to the table. At Nice, I think the bars would be nicer (no pun intended) if they were narrower. Markussep Talk 14:49, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
- I’m happy with this, thanks a lot! Does it work the same as it did with the old Graph extension, with the graph_pos parameter? Markussep Talk 19:55, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, I started integrating it into "historical populations". you can see what I have so far in the testcases. Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
- That's already pretty nice! I like the narrow bars. Could you make the bars the same colour as the standard {{Historical populations}} header? And maybe the chart a bit narrower, say 600px. Markussep Talk 15:00, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, I made some changes (see what the chart looks like at User:Frietjes/timeline). I tried to automatically compute the year label spacing and the ScaleMajor and ScaleMinor lines, but there may be some improvement there. Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Frietjes, I think a bar chart would be good enough, it's a lot better than what we have now (nothing). I saw the LineData option, nice, but that probably requires a lot of calculation / difficult programming. Do you think you could make something similar to what they did at French Wikipedia (fr:Modèle:Histogramme population manuel, see e.g. fr:Ury)? Markussep Talk 07:32, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Markussep, coming back to this thread, it is possible to create on demand bar plots, see User:Frietjes/timeline for example. it looks like
- Hi Frietjes, I don't think anyone is going to create data pages for all instances where the Historical populations template is used. Maybe Module:Chart would work, I hope it can be made to look nicer than in the examples. I do not know of any other option... Markussep Talk 15:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Markussep, I implemented loading data from commons. see Frisange#Population for example. let me know if you see any problems. Frietjes (talk) 18:21, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
Script idea
So as you know I love your scripts... Had an idea for another that you might be able to do. It is a variant of User:Frietjes/indent.js. My thinking is to get a script that will do the same thing for Infobox templates. Unifying the indentation of the |data#= and |label#= values... Not sure if you have any interest, but I sure as hell would use it! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:42, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Zackmann08: what would it look like after indentation? Frietjes (talk) 16:10, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- So I guess this is the sort of thing I had in mind... Of course it gets much more complicated with the many other infobox parameters... but that is the basic idea that I had in mind. Anything that unifies the indentation to be more readable I'm in favor of. Right vs left justified, I could go either way... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:12, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas
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Speedy deletion of Thai Commercial

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Dash
Please stop replacing the dash in the Twin towns section title. Has there been any discussion about this? FromCzech (talk) 17:33, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- "Twin towns" and "sister cities" are synonyms, not two different things. This section name format is used consistently in many states, so I see no reason for such a change. FromCzech (talk) 17:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- FromCzech, just going by the current convention here: Special:PrefixIndex/List of twin towns and sister cities. Frietjes (talk) 17:58, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- For the section names, "dash" is much more common than "and", so I would call that more of a convention. FromCzech (talk) 18:04, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- FromCzech, thousands for both, but certainly simple dash is not the convention. Frietjes (talk) 18:15, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, I meant en dash, not hyphen. Em dash is also incorrectly used in several hundreds cases, which is the wrong format, but we must not forget to add them to the en dash. FromCzech (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- FromCzech, thousands for both, but certainly simple dash is not the convention. Frietjes (talk) 18:15, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- For the section names, "dash" is much more common than "and", so I would call that more of a convention. FromCzech (talk) 18:04, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- FromCzech, just going by the current convention here: Special:PrefixIndex/List of twin towns and sister cities. Frietjes (talk) 17:58, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
Indent.js help?
Howdy! I keep running into this bizarre situation that is being triggered by running Indent.js and is causing a mess of CS1 errors. For a real-world example Special:Diff/1348209281/1355270785. Any idea how to fix this inside of Indent.js? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- User:Zackmann08, try this. which was intended to change to
{{Infobox foo | name = Something | occupation = Something else | hometown= Somewhere }}
but was not checking to see if there was a pipe before the equal sign. this fix may or may not work as intended. Frietjes (talk) 22:54, 20 May 2026 (UTC){{Infobox foo | name = Something | occupation = Something else | hometown = Somewhere }}
- Well fixes the issue I was having, here's hoping it doesn't cause other things... Will report back if I find other issues. You're the best! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:01, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- Another weird one... For some reason Indent.js isn't working on this bit of code. Would have expected this to happen. This is a simplified example of an error I have seen elsewhere. The regexes you have written are so far beyond my understanding that I'm not sure where the issue may be. If you have any thoughts? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:10, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- User:Zackmann08, yes, I have seen this before. It is suppose to try to follow the majority indentation convention, but the un-indent part doesn't always work. I will see if I can figure out why. Frietjes (talk) 14:46, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- User:Zackmann08, this probably fixes it. Frietjes (talk) 14:54, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- Another weird one... For some reason Indent.js isn't working on this bit of code. Would have expected this to happen. This is a simplified example of an error I have seen elsewhere. The regexes you have written are so far beyond my understanding that I'm not sure where the issue may be. If you have any thoughts? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:10, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
- Well fixes the issue I was having, here's hoping it doesn't cause other things... Will report back if I find other issues. You're the best! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:01, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
LDS Module
At this TFD you proposed the idea of making an LDS Module similar to Module:Solar eclipse. Is this a project you are interested in taking on in anyway? If so, is there any way that I can help? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:06, 22 May 2026 (UTC)
- So been a few months... A recent incident with {{infobox LDS Temple}} has brought this to the forefront. Could I get you to do create a good framework for this and then I will come in and populate it with the data? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:48, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08 we could merge all the Special:PrefixIndex/Template:LDS Temple/ data pages into a single data module, and then create functions that either (a) take a list of temples to generate a table in a few different formats or (b) generate an infobox. is this the idea? Frietjes (talk) 20:53, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
- I mean I guess? Honestly I think the data should just be stored on the pages like every other Infobox on wikipedia. This idea of creating a module to display Infobox data seems bizzare to me. Then if I want to update the
|president=for Adam-ondi-Ahman (for example) I have to do a deep dive into module code instead of just editing the page for Adam-ondi-Ahman. I don't get the point of this extra layer of complexity. - Do you think it is worth doing? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:13, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
- I imagine the people who created this system thought the value was being able to update the information in one place instead of 5 different places. having the module read the contents of the infoboxes in 100 different articles may be technically possible, but would definitely be slower than transcluding 100 different templates in pages like Comparison of temples (LDS Church). however, reading a single module data page would be even more efficient. the other option would be the wikidata route, but that wouldn't be cheap either. how this is designed this seems like something that should be decided at say Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement or some centralized location. Frietjes (talk) 14:41, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- if you want to test if you can load 100 different infoboxes in one page without hitting the transclusion limits (which would allow storing the all the data in the individual infoboxes), you could do a test with something like Module:Excerpt. Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- I mean I guess? Honestly I think the data should just be stored on the pages like every other Infobox on wikipedia. This idea of creating a module to display Infobox data seems bizzare to me. Then if I want to update the
- Zackmann08 we could merge all the Special:PrefixIndex/Template:LDS Temple/ data pages into a single data module, and then create functions that either (a) take a list of temples to generate a table in a few different formats or (b) generate an infobox. is this the idea? Frietjes (talk) 20:53, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Templates calling Infobox court case

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Nomination for merger of Template:Infobox rune
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Nomination for merger of Template:Infobox census
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Bug? Maybe?
So I forked your amazing find dup args script so I can use it from within JWB... In so doing I think I found a bug in your code. If you look at User:Frietjes/findargdups.js#L-140 I think you have an infinite loop. Unless I am missing something, you are never incrementing the value of j so it will always below 50. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:15, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, you are correct that either (a) there shouldn't be a check to see if "j < 50" or (b) we should be incrementing j inside the loop. I guess the best thing to do would be to (a) bump up the number to say 100 and (b) issue an alert if you ever hit the limit before breaking out of the loop so that one of us can look at that article to see why a single citation has over 100 = signs that need to be pre-processed. having a limit at all is really just a performance thing to make sure it's not spending a really long time in the pre-process stage. Frietjes (talk) 23:22, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- It took me a while to track down but I realize that the way your code is implemented is different than mine. If yours, the only action waiting on that to finish is the alert. For mine, the entire browser freezes waiting on that loop to finish. Can you help me understand the point of line 141 to begin with? Why the need to preprocess these? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:25, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, it's been a long time since I wrote that line, but it looks like I am probably trying to guard against something like which isn't a duplicate argument, but my script probably thought it was. to really know the exact situation that caused me to put this in, I would need to go back in the history for the script and find my edits around the time that I added that logic. Frietjes (talk) 23:34, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
{{some template | <ref>dogs = yes </ref> | <ref>dogs = no</ref>}} - Zackmann08, I found the edit here where I said it was for wikitables inside of
<ref>...</ref>. not sure why that was a problem. Frietjes (talk) 23:38, 8 June 2026 (UTC)- You mean you don't remember your logic from... *checks edit history* ... eleven years ago??
Sounds like an edge case that I don't need to worry too much about! However, I would still fix the infinite loop. I think it might be related to an issue where the text doesn't always get highlighted... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:40, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, sure, breaking after 50 seems fine. although it's not infinite unless there are an infinite number of = on the page. Frietjes (talk) 23:45, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hm.... No idea why it was landing me in an infinite loop in my implementation... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 01:34, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, sure, breaking after 50 seems fine. although it's not infinite unless there are an infinite number of = on the page. Frietjes (talk) 23:45, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
- You mean you don't remember your logic from... *checks edit history* ... eleven years ago??
- Zackmann08, it's been a long time since I wrote that line, but it looks like I am probably trying to guard against something like
- It took me a while to track down but I realize that the way your code is implemented is different than mine. If yours, the only action waiting on that to finish is the alert. For mine, the entire browser freezes waiting on that loop to finish. Can you help me understand the point of line 141 to begin with? Why the need to preprocess these? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:25, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
Lua Help
Hello again... Wanted to see if I could pick your brain on some Lua assistance. Module:Check for deprecated parameters is based off of your Module:Check for unknown parameters. What Deprecated parameters is lacking right now is the ability to supply regular expressions. It is a bit more complicate than unknown parameters because it needs to supply both the find and the replace value. I.E. looking at the current code on {{Infobox royal}} we need to replace all instances of |reign-type(%d)= with |reign_type$1=. I've kicked around trying to write this in my head, but you're far better at this stuff than I... Any interest in giving this a go? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, lots of debugging, but this change seems to work, tested here. the syntax is to separate to pattern from the replacement with an '='. a couple things to remember about LUA expressions that I had forgotten: (1) use
%1not$1for the replacement value, (2) use%to escape not\. feel free to move this to the live module if you think it's what you want. Frietjes (talk) 18:27, 11 June 2026 (UTC)- As per usual, you rock. Will play around with it right now. Thanks for taking the time to give this a go! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
Yet another request...
I feel like I'm constantly bugging you but have another request. Trying to write a helper module for my JWB script and I need a Javascript regex. Basically trying to isolate just Infobox code. so everything from {{Infobox foo... to the closing }}. The tricky part that I cannot figure out is how to not have it crap out the first time it hits a set of }} because, of course, an Infobox can contain multiple template calls. So how can I look for the entirety of {{Infobox foo|....}} but not match anything outside of said Infobox. I feel like you've probably tackled this with your Indent.js. As always, your help is appreciated. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 06:09, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08 with indent.js what I did was (1) unnest templates and comments by splitting apart the text into small chunks, (2) process each chunk, and (3) reassemble the page. the logic for that starts near line 161. first, on line 175 I push all comments into the
tlistarray, replacing the comments with♦§1§♦,♦§2§♦, ... where the number corresponds to the location comment string in thetlistarray. second, I do the same for templates starting at line 192. once this is all done, I then pass each piece intlistto thewpIndent. finally, I reassemble the article starting at line 213. I found this to be the most robust way to do it because of the complexity of things like comments and extremely nested templates. I suppose I should also be doing the same splitting for things like<pre>...</pre>,<nowiki>...</nowiki>,<syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>, but I haven't seen the need yet for the indent script. at one point, someone mentioned that I might be able to access the raw parse tree used by the backend, which would eliminate the need for me to do the splitting, but I haven't looked into that. I don't know what other scripts do. Frietjes (talk) 14:58, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
thanks for the fix
Unknown params help
Trying to add unknown param tracking to Module:Piechart/sandbox#L-956 and having trouble... Hoping you can assist? You can see a demo here on my sandbox. It is rendering the tracking cat correctly, but the preview warning isn't working and I cannot for the life of me figure out why... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:42, 22 June 2026 (UTC)
- not sure, but I will have a look later. Frietjes (talk) 15:05, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
- Much appreciated! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 15:06, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08 after fumbling around, I finally used Special:ExpandTemplates and noticed that all the tracking was being injected in the middle of the chart json. so, I looked closer at the template that wraps the module and noticed that it calls the module multiple times, and it will only work if you either (a) move it to the
p.piefunction or (b) move out outside of the module entirely and put it in the wrapping template. Frietjes (talk) 21:13, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
Facepalm Thanks!! Appreciate you tracking this down. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:16, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
- If you feel like performing a code review... Would LOVE you input on this discussion and specifically the code in the sandbox. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:18, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08 after fumbling around, I finally used Special:ExpandTemplates and noticed that all the tracking was being injected in the middle of the chart json. so, I looked closer at the template that wraps the module and noticed that it calls the module multiple times, and it will only work if you either (a) move it to the
- Much appreciated! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 15:06, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
Unblock?

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Request reason:
suddenly I am unable to edit any pages because 136.226.0.0/16 has been blocked by Izno? in the past I have been able to edit so long as I was logged in, but now I can only edit my talk page. Frietjes (talk) 15:10, 26 June 2026 (UTC)
Accept reason:
That IP address belongs to zscaler, a proxy. Please disable your proxy. Note it may take as long as 24 hours for the block to clear. WP:IPBE is likely also an option if you are for some reason forced to use this proxy, given your truly impressive edit history. --Yamla (talk) 15:18, 26 June 2026 (UTC)
IP block exempt
I have granted your account an IP block exemption for a period of 1 year. If you still need an IP block exemption after it expires, please file a new request. This will allow you to edit the English Wikipedia through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.
Please read the page Wikipedia:IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions. Inappropriate usage of this user right may result in revocation. I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. Yamla (talk) 16:03, 26 June 2026 (UTC)
If you still need to use the proxy once that 1 year is up, please request an extension. I can't see anyone having any problem granting you that extension. --Yamla (talk) 16:03, 26 June 2026 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edits
Hi. I can see that you've collapsed a few rail transport in Poland by county templates, such as Template:Rail transport in Zgorzelec County. Thanks for fixing the whitespace, however I reverted the collapse because all articles that use these templates just have one navbox, so I don't see why it should be collapsed. And actually, see this: 9.
Due to size, the use of multiple nav templates may take up too much space on one article, which could lead to a POV-tainted choice as to which to include. This can be minimised by setting all or most templates on a page to autocollapse, hiding most of their content until activated.
Take a look at 2026 Piła train collision, it uses Template:Railway accidents and incidents in 2026. That's the only navbox there, so it isn't collapsed. Same with all other rail accidents of the same year which have just one navbox, uncollapsed.
Fortek67 (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- Fortek67, do you see where it says
autocollapsein your quote? if you set a navbox toautocollapse(which is the default if you don't pass anything) it will be expanded by default when it is the only navbox on the page. this is exactly what I was doing, so why are you reverting my changes? Frietjes (talk) 14:41, 29 June 2026 (UTC)- Frietjes, well this isn't working how you say it is, because it's still collapsed despite being the only navbox in the article. See the bottom of Mikułowa, Jerzmanki, Węgliniec Dworzec Mały, the list goes on. And now look at an article such as Gozdnica which uses
uncollapsed. Now I understand your intentions, however it's not working how you say it should. Fortek67 (talk) 15:00, 29 June 2026 (UTC)- Fortek67, there must be another template on that page being identified as a navbox which is causing it to collapse by default. if you open up just the bottom section in preview mode, you will see that it is uncollapsed. but, if you open the entire page in preview mode it is collapsed. let me have a look and figure out what is going on. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
- The only template that is present in all railway station pages is {{Adjacent stations}}, but that's a succession box. This issue isn't present in any railway line articles (to my knowledge) such as Węgliniec–Czerwona Woda. Very weird. Fortek67 (talk) 15:22, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
- Fortek67, there must be another template on that page being identified as a navbox which is causing it to collapse by default. if you open up just the bottom section in preview mode, you will see that it is uncollapsed. but, if you open the entire page in preview mode it is collapsed. let me have a look and figure out what is going on. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
- Frietjes, well this isn't working how you say it is, because it's still collapsed despite being the only navbox in the article. See the bottom of Mikułowa, Jerzmanki, Węgliniec Dworzec Mały, the list goes on. And now look at an article such as Gozdnica which uses
Template CSDs
Thanks for going through all the trouble of tagging all of those subpages / talk redirects. I noticed I missed them on the first pass and you managed to tag them before I could even find them all. ASUKITE 20:35, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
Your edit to my user subpage
Hi, what was this for, without an edit summary? , And now, that I'm noticing it, this: Largoplazo (talk) 02:11, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- Largoplazo, sorry, you can revert those if you want: (1) the {{demography}} template is being merged with {{historical populations}} per this discussion. (2) I was cleaning up WP:Database reports/Transclusions of non-existent templates. however, there have been changes since then and we are no longer tracking userspace in WP:Database reports/Transclusions of non-existent templates, so if you don't want the templates on your userpage to work, please feel free to revert. Frietjes (talk) 14:48, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- No harm done, and I had a sense that it was part of a mass replacement, I was just curious. Thanks. Largoplazo (talk) 16:06, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Norfolk Broads map
Hi, I see you created Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Norfolk. Could you make one for the Norfolk Broads please? Area being based on the Norfolk map, but cut off just west of Norwich. Needs to be able to accommodate Starston Windpump (52.411 N, 1.280 E) as the map is to be used on the List of drainage windmills in Norfolk. I tried using the Norfolk map but the mills are too close together and the labels often merged. Mjroots (talk) 09:10, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Mjroots, I can probably do it, but can you tell me the border coordinates for the new map? you can see the border coordinates for the Norfolk map in module you linked or in the file description at Commons:File:Norfolk UK location map.svg. Frietjes (talk) 15:05, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Same as Norfolk map except western border at 1.20 should be OK. We can always tweak it after it is in use. Mjroots (talk) 16:33, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Mjroots, okay, but tweaking it after it is in use with require modifying the file on commons every time you tweak it. Frietjes (talk) 16:36, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Understood, am hoping it will be OK as is. Mjroots (talk) 17:09, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Mjroots, okay, now created Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Norfolk Broads by changing the viewport on the other svg and uploading the clipped version to commons. I tested
{{location map|United Kingdom Norfolk|coordinates={{coord|52.411|1.280}}|width=1200}}vs.{{location map|United Kingdom Norfolk Broads|coordinates={{coord|52.411|1.280}}|width=600}}and it looks like the pin is on the same spot. if you want more tweaks, like the red inset to be cropped to, that will take more time. Frietjes (talk) 18:11, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Mjroots, okay, now created Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Norfolk Broads by changing the viewport on the other svg and uploading the clipped version to commons. I tested
- Understood, am hoping it will be OK as is. Mjroots (talk) 17:09, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Mjroots, okay, but tweaking it after it is in use with require modifying the file on commons every time you tweak it. Frietjes (talk) 16:36, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Same as Norfolk map except western border at 1.20 should be OK. We can always tweak it after it is in use. Mjroots (talk) 16:33, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thank you for diving into {{Infobox settlement}}. I tried my best but that template code is a beast and I clearly got lost on the way. As always, greatly appreciate your skills! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:51, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
Help?
Wondering if you might be able to tackle something for me... Template:Infobox tram network/Era needs to be converted to use {{Infobox}}. Was going to replicate the idea used in Template:Infobox officeholder/office but the problem is that tram network/Era has the ability to collapse the entire template and I don't know how best to keep that. Any ideas? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:46, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, I put something in the sandbox (no real testing). Frietjes (talk) 22:43, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, the
|eraX_mpassengers=parameters display on a data line with no label or header, which seems odd? my brief search didn't find any articles using these parameters, so maybe never tested or used? Frietjes (talk) 22:48, 7 August 2026 (UTC)- nevermind, I found Christchurch tramway system which has {{Rail pass box}} in that parameter. still seems odd to not have a heading for the stats, but who knows. Frietjes (talk) 23:07, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- As usual, you're the best! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:44, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- nevermind, I found Christchurch tramway system which has {{Rail pass box}} in that parameter. still seems odd to not have a heading for the stats, but who knows. Frietjes (talk) 23:07, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
I feel like I'm always coming to you for help, but you're so good at it... Got another weird one for ya. My fork of your indent script (User:Zackmann08/scripts/indent.js) is acting up. At line 241 of my version, you will see I have a hook setup so that if you press the accessKey combo with "i" it runs the script. I recently made some changes to the script (Special:Diff/1360247426/1367612613) to allow it to work when syntax highlighting is turned on. The weird thing is that now when I run it, it runs twice. I have have inserted a few log statements. If you test running it on this version of my sandbox, you will see that it runs twice when you use the keyboard shortcut. Note the 2 popups top right and the repeated log statements in the console. If you run it from the toolbar however, it only runs once. I am a total loss... Oh also, this only happens when syntax highlihgting is turned on! Turn it off, script only runs one time... Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:27, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Zackmann08, did you get it to work? if I recall, at one point in time, I was having problems that if you made edits, then ran the script, the script wouldn't use the most recent version of the textbox, and instead, use the version of the textbox on page load. so, the solution was to make sure you are using the most recent contents of the textbox in your function. I didn't try your access key combo, but I would think something like this would work. basically you (1) grab the structure that holds the textbox on page load, and (2) copy the contents of the textbox when the actual function is executed, and (3) copy the modified contents back when you exit the actual function. let me know if you need help as figuring out why your version doesn't work would require more testing. Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
- I saw that exact issue you described when I first implemented this. Learned from reading your code in User:Frietjes/infoboxgap.js how to solve that issue. The indenting works, it is just running twice for some reason. May just learn to live with it... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:21, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
Rename all categories for userboxes
Please join the discussion to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 August 12#All categories for userboxes. —andrybak (talk) 22:39, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Lala language (South Africa)
Nomination for merging of Template:TFNSW lines
Template:TFNSW lines has been nominated for merging with Template:TFNSW icon. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerty123M (talk) 08:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
Bicknell, IN
Please stop undoing the "Notable People" category for Bicknell, IN. That fact has been verified through the Vincennes Sun-Commercial. Demon Ninja80 (talk) 16:32, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
History summary
Your history summary tool is very useful! Would it be possible to have the option to put the list of contributors in reverse chronological order? Even more amazing would be an option to order based on most to least contributions, but I imagine that might be harder? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:28, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
- Plastikspork, I am assuming you mean chronological order? they were in reverse chronological order before, but I modified the code to put them in chronological order. I also changed it so it interleaves the history if there are multiple pages. let me know if that works better for you. Frietjes (talk) 16:51, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
Nomination for merging of Template:TFNSW lines
Template:TFNSW lines has been nominated for merging with Template:Rail-interchange. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerty123M (talk) 00:04, 12 September 2026 (UTC)






