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== Portraits and panoramas ==

{{moved discussion from|Template talk:Transclude files as random slideshow|2=<u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)}}

Hi, would it be possible to add a height parameter in addition to width, so that you can limit the size of portrait-format images? And, ideally, would it be also possible to add a functionality similar to [[:Template:Wide image|Wide image]] to better display panoramic pictures? — [[User:Kpalion|Kpalion]]^{[[User talk:Kpalion|(talk)]]} 16:00, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

:Ideally some way of limiting the image size to fit into the screen. &middot; &middot; &middot; [[User:Pbsouthwood|Peter (Southwood)]] [[User talk:Pbsouthwood|^(talk)]]: 17:26, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

== Non-free images being included in slideshows ==

{{moved discussion from|Template talk:Transclude files as random slideshow|2=<u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)}}

Is there a way to tweak this templates syntax so that it doesn't call up any non-free images when it's used on pages like [[:Portal:Anti-nuclear movement]]? Non-free files are only allowed to be used in the article namespace per [[:WP:NFCC#9]] which means they shouldn't be displayed on portal pages. -- [[User:Marchjuly|Marchjuly]] ([[User talk:Marchjuly|talk]]) 04:15, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

:{{ping|Marchjuly}} This should already be done... [[Module:Excerpt]] is used to parse page content, which tests images and excludes those which are non-free. Which specific image or images are slipping through? - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 04:50, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

::[[:File:Nuclear hand.png]] is getting flagged as being used on "Portal:Anti-nuclear movement". -- [[User:Marchjuly|Marchjuly]] ([[User talk:Marchjuly|talk]]) 04:55, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

:::So its a non-free file within a gallery, which probably should<ins>n't</ins> be there in the first case per [[Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Multimedia]]. But in any case, I'm modifying the code to also check gallery files (which are processed separately to other files) for non-free content. - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:12, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

::::{{done}} - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:17, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

::::::Thanks {{u|Evad37}}. -- [[User:Marchjuly|Marchjuly]] ([[User talk:Marchjuly|talk]]) 05:25, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

::::::{{ping|Evad37}} Would you mind taking a look at [[:Portal:Tron]]. The same thing that happened above seems to be happening in that portal regarding [[:File:Tron2lightcycle.jpg]] and [[:File:Tron Lightcycles.jpg]]. -- [[User:Marchjuly|Marchjuly]] ([[User talk:Marchjuly|talk]]) 05:36, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

:::::::{{ping|Marchjuly}} {{Fixed}}. They were specified on the portal itself, so just needs to be removed there [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal%3ATron&type=revision&diff=856731602&oldid=856653596] - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

::::::::Thank you. -- [[User:Marchjuly|Marchjuly]] ([[User talk:Marchjuly|talk]]) 06:10, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

== HTML code appearing in the captions of some images ==

Several images use templates in their captions, such as for keys in maps (see [[Territories of the United States]]) and it would be a good idea to either:

* Remove the result of the templates (so remove HTML code from captions)

* Allow the template to show its content/results (so allow parsing of HTML code in the image captions)

See [[Portal:United States Territories]] for an example of this happening, but I have seen it in other portals. [[User:Dreamy Jazz|Dreamy <i style="color:#d01e1e">'''Jazz'''</i>]] 🎷 ^{''[[User_talk:Dreamy Jazz|talk to me]]'' &#124; ''[[Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz|my contributions]]''} 17:07, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

:{{Fixed}}, just needed to make sure linebreaks were removed from expanded templates - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 02:29, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

== Image dimensions displayed as captions ==

As used at [[Portal:Greek alphabet]], the code <source lang=moin>{{Transclude files as random slideshow

| Greek alphabet

|

|

}}</source> produces captions like {{tq|x12px}} for many of the images. To me, these are image dimensions, not intended to be shown to the non-editing reader. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 23:16, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Redrose64}} {{Fixed}}. The module was previously sometimes confusing the size for the caption; now it will either display the real caption, or leave off the caption if there isn't one. - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 00:24, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

::{{ty}} --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 10:54, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

== Nifty use of this template for a sidebar slideshow, maybe we should support this correctly? ==

{{Sidebar

| pretitle = Some effects of climate change

| pretitlestyle = font-weight:bold;

| cellspacing = 0

| cellpadding = 0

| width =

| style = border:1px solid #c8ccd1;

| content1style = margin:-5px -5px -2.2em -5px; display: inline-block;

| content1 = {{Transclude files as random slideshow

| Global warming | section1= Nature and wildlife

| Global warming | section2= Humans

}}

| content2style = height:0px; margin:0 -0.4em; padding:0; display:inline-block; visibility:hidden;

| content2 = [[File:Sea_level_history_and_projections.svg|frameless|border|upright=1.35]]

}}

I used the "Transclude files as random slideshow" template to create a sidebar slideshow. You can see the effect on the right hand side here. While the markup is pretty minimal, there are several semi-hacks I had to do to get it to work:

# I wrapped the "Transclude files as random slideshow" template in the "sidebar" template

# The edge spacing on the gallery is too much for fitting in the side bar, so to zoom it in I used negative margins with inline-block display

# You can't size the gallery according to a thumbnail, so to get the sizing right I include a hidden image in the sidebar and then size the gallery to that

# The trouble then is that if you click another image in the page and then use the right / left directional arrows to go through all images, you'll see the hidden image. To work around THAT, I stuffed in a fallback image in the hidden ___location.

# Tweaked the border color to match thumbnail pics

The images only appear on desktop for some reason; on mobile all images are hidden, even though the template documentation says that 4 images should be shown on mobile. Also, during page load the images are laid out in a stacked column before collapsing, but I think that's just how the template works (it's not unique to the sidebar use).

It's a pretty nifty way to elevate some content in an article to the intro. Thoughts on supporting this as a real thing, like maybe a new template or having a setting on this template so people could discover this usage? [[User:Efbrazil|Efbrazil]] ([[User talk:Efbrazil|talk]]) 20:49, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

== Portals with many images ==

{{ping|Evad37|Northamerica1000}} Portal generation can be slow and sometimes breaches the 10-second limit. [[Portal:Pakistan]] was showing "The time allocated for running scripts has expired."; I purged it at a quiet time but it's still over 9 seconds and may flip back randomly. 66% of that is one call to {{tl|Transclude files as random slideshow}} which generates 145 images. What should we do?

One option is to have the module apply a maximum image count. It might be better to tune individual portals, reducing the list of articles from which images are extracted. At least that way we have some say in which ones are removed. Another idea is to limit the number of images per article (currently hard-coded as 100 in the module, which in practice means "all"). However, doing so naively would drop the later images which might be the best ones. Ideally, the module would select the "best" pictures, but that probably involves doing all the current work (and more) before discarding the mediocre, which improves the portal but doesn't solve the timing problem.

I think that choosing 50 at random is as simple as adding the <code>, 1, 50</code> in <code>local galleryContent = table.concat(sortedLines, '\n', 1, 50)</code>, though pruning the selection earlier might be more efficient and we may want to accept a parameter to override the value of 50 that I plucked from thin air. Any thoughts? [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 12:47, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

*I noticed that {{u|Pakieditor}} significantly expanded the General images section on 20 September 2020 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Pakistan&diff=979444187&oldid=972187558 diff]), which is very likely contributing to the Lua timeout errors. An immediate fix would be to prune some of the entries from the General images section. From past experience, this tends to stop the timeouts. <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">[[User:Northamerica1000|North America]]^{[[User talk:Northamerica1000|<span style="font-size: x-small;">1000</span>]]}</span> 13:20, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

:{{re|Certes}} That's rather late in the piece to be limiting the number of images. The expensive (time-consuming) work is likely to be in the {{tt|extractRegularFiles}} function, which does a bunch of string manipluation and (potentially) preprocessing of templates in a loop. - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 13:29, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

::You're right; it's too late. extractRegularFiles is efficient: gsub takes 0.32 seconds, some of which lies elsewhere. I suspect the time goes even earlier, in the parse function of Module:Excerpt/portals (which is mainly my fault, though the attribution has become separated). The killer there is retrieving up to 100 file description pages to check for non-free licences. We should probably set files=1-50 rather than 100 in this module but also remove some articles from the list in Portal:Pakistan and similar cases. [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 13:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

:I've removed subnational articles such as [[Quetta]] from [[Portal:Pakistan]]. It now renders in 6 seconds, of which only 2 s is the slideshow. As an experiment, I've introduced some variety via a region of the day: one final article of {{tlx|Random item|Islamabad|Lahore|Karachi|Quetta|Peshawar|Northern Pakistan}} rotates the evicted images. [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 14:41, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

:{{ping|GKFX}} I see the maximum number of images is down to 4. This seems rather low compared to the 50/100 discussed above. Is a new problem occurring with higher numbers? [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 00:15, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

::{{ping|Certes}} [[Portal:Arithmetic]] passes article names not filenames and was struggling at 5 articles. I will revert and make changes to the portal instead. [[User:GKFX]]^{[[User talk:GKFX|talk]]} 08:39, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

:::{{ping|GKFX}} That portal is taking 9.7 seconds (close to the maximum of 10). 37% is in {{tl|Transclude files as random slideshow}}. Although there are only five arguments, each of them has several files (images). However, there are only 14 altogether and I can't see why this is slow. Maybe {{u|Evad37}} can advise us. Another 29% is in {{tl|Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}. That runs on [[Portal:Arithmetic/Selected article]], which lists about 60 articles. I tried adding {{para|limit|30}} to that call, but it didn't seem to help. It runs again on [[Portal:Arithmetic/Biographies]] but that list is short. [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 11:05, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

== Mobile view problems ==

Slideshows are not yet enabled for mobile view: [[phab:T194887]]. As noted on the template docs, this can cause either only 4 images to be displayed, all images to be displayed in a grid, or all images to be displayed in a stack.

<gallery>

File:Israel_portal_mobile_375x800.png|Small mobile: 4 images

File:Israel_portal_mobile_800x920.png|Larger mobile: all images

File:Screenshot photo image error.png|Tablet: all images

File:Mobile view problem climate change.png|Stack of images in mainspace

</gallery>

The best solution is to enable slideshow mode on mobile, but in the meantime perhaps how this module and its templatestyles handle it can be improved... <small>(pinging {{ping|Moxy|p=}})</small> - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 02:35, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

:The template has many problems (as seen below). The template was added to portals all over before it was debugged...not only added but old system deleted. Slowly people have been fixing portals with [[Template:Portal pictures]] and [[Template:Random item]]. There was a tak about deletion of the template... but I believe it just fizzled out because so many pages are involved.

*{{phab|T196722}}: Gallery slideshow controls take up more than one line on narrow displays

*{{phab|T196723}}: Gallery slideshow flickers when changing images

*{{phab|T194887}}: Mode slideshow of gallery tag is not working in phone screens

:--<span style="font-weight:bold;color:darkblue">[[User_talk:Moxy|Moxy]]</span> <span style="color:red">🍁</span> 02:53, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

== Reserved word list needs expanding ==

[[User:Evad37|Evad37]], [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]], [[User:Moxy|Moxy]], [[User:Izno|Izno]]: {{Tlx|Transclude files as random slideshow}} creates gallery markup from file markup, and in doing so it correctly removes <code>center</code> parameters, but it doesn't remove <code>centre</code> parameters. I edited [[History of London]] just now to change three image options from <code>centre</code> to <code>center</code>, but this shouldn't have been necessary and there may be more like it, so will someone please fix the reserved word list of this template? —[[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]] ([[User talk:Anomalocaris|talk]]) 00:26, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

A related bug is apparent in [[Portal:Spain]], where <code><nowiki>{{Transclude files as random slideshow ... | Spaniards ... }}</nowiki></code> has problems with this valid markup in [[Spaniards]]:

<pre>

[[File:Llengües d'Espanya.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.35|'''The vernacular languages of Spain''' (simplified)

{| style="width:100%; background:none;"

| style="text-align: top;" | {{legend|#ddf1b4|'''[[Spanish language|Spanish]]''' official; spoken all over the country}}

{{legend|#f59053|'''[[Catalan language|Catalan]]''', co-official }}

{{legend|#808080|'''[[Basque language|Basque]]''', co-official }}

{{legend|#2b83ba|'''[[Galician language|Galician]]''', co-official }}

| style="text-align: top;" |

{{legend|#d7191c|'''[[Occitan language|Occitan]] ([[Aranese language|Aranese]])''', co-official}}

{{legend|#91cba8|'''[[Asturleonese language|Asturian (and Leonese)]]''', recognised but not official}}

{{legend|#fede99|'''[[Aragonese language|Aragonese]]''', recognised but not official }}

|}]]

</pre>

—[[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]] ([[User talk:Anomalocaris|talk]]) 01:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

: [[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]], the centre parameter is easy to fix. unfortunately, embedded tables are not easy to fix. the problem is that while you can use wikitables inside of image captions, you can't use them inside of gallery tag captions. we could have the module remove the wikitables, but correcting them would be a lot of parsing. what probably would work is to replace the wikitable markup with {{tl|Image key}} like [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spaniards&type=revision&diff=1011373135&oldid=1002493736 this edit]. [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes|talk]]) 15:13, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

:: [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]]: Thank you for showing me how to use {{tl|Image key}} to replace table captions. The next one to go was [[Portal:Schools]] sucking up table markup from [[History of education]], so I used your technique there and that fixed the [[Special:LintErrors/html5-misnesting|Misnested tag with different rendering in HTML5 and HTML4]] in the portal.

== Mobile view improvement ==

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:Much better.....agree butons a bit small..... but every image showing in mobile view is over so that's the biggest sloved.--<span style="font-weight:bold;color:darkblue">[[User:Moxy|Moxy]]</span>-[[File:Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg|15px|link=User talk:Moxy]] 11:40, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

::{{ping|Certes|Moxy}} I've managed to place the radio buttons at the top, and keep them centered so they don't jump around. I've also scaled up their size a little bit - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:01, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

:{{u|Evad37}}, this change seems to have strange results in the Portal namespace. Compare "Selected images" in [[Portal:Amphibians]] and "Selected pictures" in [[Portal:Sports]]. [[Portal:Amphibians]] has the radio selection buttons even on desktop. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 09:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

{{Done}} {{ping|Certes|Moxy}} - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 06:26, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

:Something in this change appears to be causing Linter bogus image options errors. If you turn on the LintHint gadget, you can see them. As far as I can tell, the problem appears when {{para|alt}} is specified in the File: call on a target page. It appears that the new {{tag|span}} tags are not separated from that alt parameter by the necessary pipe. In [[Climate change]], for example, one of the errors shows up as <code><nowiki><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none"><span class="randomSlideshow-sr-only">Image 1</span></span>alt=An emaciated polar bear stands atop the remains of a melting ice floe.</nowiki></code> I'm guessing that this makes the alt tags fail to work properly for blind readers as well. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 20:41, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

::Template should not be used in main space ever......way to many problems.....as is why it's not used anywhere in main space but that one article that has major accessibility problems..... so much so that it's FA status should be removed due to accessibility as.per [[Template:Transclude files as random slideshow]] <span style="font-weight:bold;color:darkblue">[[User:Moxy|Moxy]]</span>-[[File:Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg|15px|link=User talk:Moxy]] 21:02, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

:::OK, I have prevented it from working in article space. Is someone available to fix the missing pipe problem, or should I revert the recent changes? – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 15:43, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

:{{u|Evad37}}, this change seems to have strange results in the Portal namespace. Compare "Selected images" in [[Portal:Amphibians]] and "Selected pictures" in [[Portal:Sports]]. [[Portal:Amphibians]] has the radio selection buttons even on desktop. —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 09:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

::{{re|Andrybak}} {{Fixed}}. The new styles needed to be added to [[Module:Portal pictures]]. - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 12:22, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

== bogus file option lint errors ==

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I reset [[Module:Random slideshow/sandbox]] to the production version of 14:50, 10 March 2021 by [[User:Frietjes|Freitjes]], and using {{tl|Transclude files as random slideshow/sandbox}} in the above markup, the bogus file option goes away ... almost. It's replaced by one of those pesky, dare I say "bogus px" bogus file options. Anyway, the longer bogus file option is attributable to your latest change. —[[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]] ([[User talk:Anomalocaris|talk]]) 17:20, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

:[[User:Anomalocaris|Anomalocaris]], have you considered fixing the articles instead? if the parameters image parameters are bogus, then there should be no reason not to fix the articles. for example, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2Fupright{{urlencode:[ ]*[0-9]}}%2B%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 this search] shows many upright problems (syntax not documented in [[Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]]). [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes|talk]]) 19:39, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Some version of this error is still present on a few Portal pages. I used [[Special:ExpandTemplates]] with "Portal:Marine life" in the Context title to expand the following:

<pre>

{{Transclude files as random slideshow

| Marine habitats

}}

</pre>

That results in a bogus image option here:

<pre>

File:Eurythenes plasticus (10.11646-zootaxa.4748.1.9) Figure 3.jpg|<span class="switcher-label" style="display:none"><span class="randomSlideshow-sr-only">Image 2</span></span>thumb|640&nbsp;µm microplastic found in the deep sea amphipod ''Eurythenes plasticus'' (from '''[[Marine habitats]]''')

</pre>

An error-free instance looks like this:

<pre>

File:The White Rocks near Portrush (1) - geograph.org.uk - 785899.jpg|<span class="switcher-label" style="display:none"><span class="randomSlideshow-sr-only">Image 3</span></span>Sandy shores provide shifting homes to many species (from '''[[Marine habitats]]''')

</pre>

Note the undesirable presence of <code><nowiki>thumb|</nowiki></code> in the former example. It looks like the module attempts to strip out "thumb" and similar parameters from gallery entries, but in this case, it appears to have failed. This "thumb" problem appears to be happening in a just a couple of Portal pages, but there are similar errors in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options?namespace=100 a dozen or so Portal pages], so fixing it in the module would be best. There are a few more instances of complex markup in image captions failing to be stripped or parsed correctly (e.g. "Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 US Census" from [[Missouri]]). I'm hoping a change to the regex in the module will be sufficient. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 20:43, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Jonesey95}} In the case of the Marine habitats, that appearance of <code>thumb</code> appears to be more of a case of [[GIGO]] than the module's fault. The image causing issues there is from a {{tag|gallery}}, and images in galleries do not support the <code>|thumb|</code> option (or at least not as far as I can tell), so the module never expects to have to remove it. I've removed the occurance of it from the article it's on, but correct me if I'm wrong on this call. [[User:Aidan9382|Aidan9382]] _{([[User talk:Aidan9382|talk]])} 18:07, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

::As for the errors appearing on some of the other portal pages, like [[Portal:Pennsylvania]] (the issue lies in <code>File:Pennsylvania Counties by race (2020 census).svg</code> from [[Pennsylvania]]) is because of the fact that the description includes tables and templates, which, due to one reason or another (potentially due to the more limited form of gallery compared to files, but im not sure), isn't going to work or display nicely in the slideshow. In terms of fixing that, I'm not exactly sure what to recommend, as what the issue is ''specifically'' is hard to pin down. Any ideas? [[User:Aidan9382|Aidan9382]] _{([[User talk:Aidan9382|talk]])} 18:58, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

:::As I suggested in the other discussion, maybe one solution is to render the file on its own, then insert a line break and then render the caption without any processing, outside of the File: invocation. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 20:25, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

::::I have created [[Template:Transclude files as random slideshow/testcases2]] to demonstrate two of these errors. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 14:01, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

:::::Came across this issue again while investigating something else, so I decided to take a look. The primary issue lies in how galleries work, and how they don't respect tables that well, and unfortunately I'm not sure if this has a simple solution. I've left my findings on what I've noticed on [[Special:Permalink/1116592103|this page]] with examples, which should explain it well. As for solutions, the only idea I have is preventing the expansion of templates, but I have yet to test this, and I'm not sure if the expansion is currently intentional for a different reason. [[User:Aidan9382|Aidan9382]] _{([[User talk:Aidan9382|talk]])} 10:16, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

::::::{{ping|Jonesey95}} Good news - after quite a touch up today with how the module works and some more light work yesterday, I've mostly fixed the 2 main causes of the bogus file option linter errors, bringing down the total number of errors from what I think was ~140 to ''10'' (and a few are human errors, not the module). I'm going to do a minor look into weird upright inclusion behaviour after this post, but as far as I can see the new version is working fine, though if you notice any issues or have suggestions, do tell me. Hope this helps. [[User:Aidan9382|Aidan9382]] _{([[User talk:Aidan9382|talk]])} 12:16, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

::::::...iiiiif I didn't run into issues, which apparently seems to be impossible with me :). Turns out [[Module:Excerpt slideshow]] was quite unhappy with what I tried and blew up on the spot, so I also now have to go fix that. If the linter errors are back to below 15, I've found a fix before you've seen this. If not, hopefully I will soon after. [[User:Aidan9382|Aidan9382]] _{([[User talk:Aidan9382|talk]])} 12:31, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

:::::::Thanks for continuing to work on it. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 13:16, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

== Link to transcluded article ==

I have {{diff|Module:Random slideshow|prev|1024560830|changed}} the transclude function to link to the article from which an image is transcluded. Previous discussion: [[User talk:Certes#Big idea]]. [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 21:47, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

*Looks and works great. Thanks {{u|Certes}}! <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">[[User:Northamerica1000|North America]]^{[[User talk:Northamerica1000|<span style="font-size: x-small;">1000</span>]]}</span> 23:16, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

== Copy to Commons? ==

{{ping|Evad37}} Just following up to see, with the recent improvements to the mobile version, if this is good to copy over to Commons? Thanks. &mdash; <samp>[[User:Rhododendrites|<span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span>]] <sup style="font-size:80%;">[[User_talk:Rhododendrites|talk]]</sup></samp> \\ 14:34, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

:{{ping|Evad37}} One more nudge on this and I'll leave you alone/find something different. :) &mdash; <samp>[[User:Rhododendrites|<span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span>]] <sup style="font-size:80%;">[[User_talk:Rhododendrites|talk]]</sup></samp> \\ 17:09, 20 July 2021 (UTC)

::{{re|Rhododendrites}} Sorry, I haven't had much free time IRL to spend on wiki stuff. The pieces should be pretty much ready, and should be able to be copied over to commons – except I'm not sure what the modules are like over there, which might make it harder to put it all together. Plus article excerpt slideshows don't need to be a thing over on commons, but are part of the module here. Feel free to ping me again in a couple of weeks if I haven't gotten around to it by then, or leave a message on my talk page - <u>'''[[User:Evad37|Evad]]''37'''''</u>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:95%;">&#91;[[d:w:User talk:Evad37|talk]]]</span> 05:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

:::Copied over (without the transclusion stuff), and seems to be working fine! {{thumbsup}} &mdash; <samp>[[User:Rhododendrites|<span style="font-size:90%;letter-spacing:1px;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px Indigo;">Rhododendrites</span>]] <sup style="font-size:80%;">[[User_talk:Rhododendrites|talk]]</sup></samp> \\ 22:18, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

== Random pic from category ==

Instead of lists; has anyone built a Random Slideshow from Category? Wouldn't it be much easier to have a "{PortalName} Portal Pictures" category? [[User:Mjquinn id|Mjquinn_id]] ([[User talk:Mjquinn id|talk]]) 19:58, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

:There is [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 165#Listing category members in a module or template|no way]] for a template or module to find out what pages are in a category (short of reading in every file in Wikipedia and scanning for "Category:Whatever"). [[User:Certes|Certes]] ([[User talk:Certes|talk]]) 20:31, 26 August 2021 (UTC)