Template talk:Documentation

On line 229, please change the function to this:

	function envFuncs.templateTitle()
		--[[
		-- The template (or module, etc.) title object.
		-- Messages:
		-- 'sandbox-subpage' --> 'sandbox'
		-- 'testcases-subpage' --> 'testcases'
		--]]
		local subjectSpace = env.subjectSpace
		local title = env.title
		local subpage = title.subpageText
		if subpage == message('sandbox-subpage') or subpage == message('testcases-subpage') or (subpage == message('doc-subpage') and mw.title.getCurrentTitle().namespace == env.docSpace) then
			return mw.title.makeTitle(subjectSpace, title.baseText)
		else
			return mw.title.makeTitle(subjectSpace, title.text)
		end
	end

This will make the doc environment behave correctly, giving the actual template name on the doc page rather than the name of the "doc" subpage. Aasim (話す（はなす）) 00:17, 10 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 03:39, 12 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

In mobile but not desktop view, there is no space between Documentation and the first link: for example I see

Documentation[view] [edit] [history] [purge]

instead of

Documentation [view] [edit] [history] [purge]

This is true both on the mobile webpage and in the Android app, but the desktop view is fine. Using |heading=Documentation  as a workaround produces the correct appearance on mobile, but the extra space is then visible in desktop view. Musiconeologist (talk) 12:35, 21 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

In the bottom part of the template, apply this change: (this also applies to {{Navbox documentation}}

Reason for the change: "test cases" is used as two words everywhere else. See, for example:

• {{Template_sandbox_notice}}
• {{Template test cases}}
• Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases

These two templates both call it "test cases page" and it is spaced even outside of templates. This is not the case when it's styled as "/testcases", because that's how the subpages are named, just like how Documentation is also styled "/doc"; but this doesn't mean we call it "the doc page". FaviFake (talk) 17:09, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

In my experience we actually do sometimes call documentation pages "doc pages". And this feels like another thing so trivial it wasn't worth bothering a template editor over. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:19, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Well, sure, but not outside of talk pages; or at least in my experience.

There are a lot of edits of mine you consider "too trivial", but I don't understand why you generally oppose them. Some people like to take their time to do a big rewrite one at a time, while some like to go around and fix all the little broken things they find. Like an outdated sandbox icon, or a serial comma, or the spelling of a template that's used on an entire namespace.

I've asked you twice already for better ways for me to suggest these edits; until you do, I'll have to keep using TPER. I don't think i'd qualify as a TE at the moment. FaviFake (talk) 19:58, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@FaviFake:   Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases actually mentions "testcases" as a single word multiple times, by the way. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 01:48, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Here are the word counts from the page Wikipedia:Template sandbox and test cases:

• test cases appears 20 times,
• /testcases also appears 20 times,
• However, testcases only appears 4 times, in one single paragraph.

Plus, {{Template sandbox notice}} and {{Template test cases}}, which are used as much as {{doc}}, never mention testcases and always call them test cases. Additionally, the documentation for {{Testcases notice}} itself always calls it testcases and doesn't use test cases.

Est. 2021, is consensus for this change really needed here? It seems there's already consensus to only use either test cases or /testcases; and {{Doc}} only uses the first version for the other pages it links to, such as th sandbox. FaviFake (talk) 11:22, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

While resolving Lint background color error messages, I've noticed that the occasional article's error will trace all the way back to Template:Documentation and the invoke:documentation statement (i.e. the {{#invoke:documentation|main|_content={{ {{#invoke:documentation|contentTitle}}}}}} statement).

A current example is the article for Colin Jackson:

• It simply invokes {{Navboxes}} which, in turn, simply invokes {{documentation}}.
• Drilling down into the Page Information for "Template:Documentation" § Lint Errors section's link to View detailed information on the lint errors then brings us to the invoke:documentation statement, beyond which point I am unable to navigate further to determine the cause of the background color error.

Typically the root issue behind this Lint error is the use of the 'background:' or 'background-color:' CSS properties without a corresponding 'color:' property (for specifying font color; preferably something that contrasts well with the specified background color).

Is it possible for someone to determine what color-related hi-jinks might be going on behind the scenes (and either remove or complete any incomplete background:/color: property pairings)? Resolving this should presumably clear at least 60K lint errors (i.e. any pages using Navboxes).

Many thanks in advance,
SirOlgen (talk) 22:24, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

This report is conflating two completely separate issues, which is why you're being led down a garden path.

Issue 1: There's a lint error somewhere in the navboxes at the bottom of Colin Jackson. Probably one of the navboxes on that article sets a background-color without a color.

Issue 2: There's a lint error somewhere on Template:Navboxes/doc, presumably in one of the navboxes called at Template:Navboxes/doc#Examples.

These two lint errors are independent of each other, and fixing one will have nothing do do with the other. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:34, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks much for the clarification. I'll see what I can do to root it (them?) out.

SirOlgen (talk) 22:40, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Culprits were...

Issue 1: Template:Footer Australia NC 110m Hurdles Men and Template:Footer European Indoor Champions 60m Men

Issue 2: Template:Navbox suite, Template:S-aft/doc, Template:S-bef/doc, Template:S-ttl/doc, Template:Navboxes/doc § Examples, Template:Template-linking templates, Template:Template link general/doc, Template:Key top, Template:Color/doc, Template:Namespace and pagename-detecting templates, Template:Test case/doc, Template:Navboxes/testcases, Template:Country data United States/doc, Template:Country data Japan/doc, Template:Country data Germany/doc, Template:Hlist/doc, and Template:Yesno/doc (thus far... will have to come back to this as the significant other is feeling neglected)

It's quite the rabbit hole.

In any case, thanks again for the tips!

SirOlgen (talk) 04:10, 26 August 2025 (UTC)Reply