Module talk:Excerpt slideshow

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To help centralize discussions and keep related topics together, the talk pages for all the excerpt slideshow templates redirect here: {{Transclude excerpts as random slideshow}} {{Transclude linked excerpts as random slideshow}} {{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}

Very useful

Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

  Moved from Template talk:Transclude excerpts as random slideshow

 – Evad37 [talk] 06:24, 24 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

I want this! Next step would be to combine with {{Transclude list item excerpt}} as {{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow}}, to make a really powerful automation tool to make a portal from an outline list. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 05:13, 25 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Losing list formatting

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This template seems to be losing the formatting of bulleted lists. See example.

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  Gas planning is one of the stages of scuba gas management. The other stages include:

  • Knowledge of personal and team members' gas consumption rates under varying conditions
    • basic consumption at the surface for variations in workload
    • variation in consumption due to depth variation
    • variation in consumption due to dive conditions and personal physical and mental condition
  • Monitoring the contents of the cylinders during a dive
  • Awareness of the critical pressures and using them to manage the dive
  • Efficient use of the available gas during the planned dive and during an emergency
  • Limiting the risk of equipment malfunctions that could cause a loss of breathing gas

  (Full article...)

The template {{Transclude lead excerpt}} seems to do it right. See example.

Gas planning is one of the stages of scuba gas management. The other stages include:

• Knowledge of personal and team members' gas consumption rates under varying conditions
  • basic consumption at the surface for variations in workload
  • variation in consumption due to depth variation
  • variation in consumption due to dive conditions and personal physical and mental condition
• Monitoring the contents of the cylinders during a dive
• Awareness of the critical pressures and using them to manage the dive
• Efficient use of the available gas during the planned dive and during an emergency
• Limiting the risk of equipment malfunctions that could cause a loss of breathing gas (Full article...)

so the module is working. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 12:07, 28 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

Option for title display

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Would it be possible to extract the title of the selected excerpt and display it at the top of the rendering? Some excerpts are not very obvious about their topic, and particularly with the slideshow arrangement, it would help to identify what the excerpt is about. In the case of a section, the full section title would probably be most generally useful. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 17:11, 28 July 2018 (UTC)Reply