Contents
- 1 Navigational Templates
- 2 Templates to add
- 3 Slow to update?
- 4 To Check
- 5 How's about...
- 6 Template:Succession box
- 7 redirect
- 8 Difference between PDF creation and printing
- 9 Some other suggested templates to ignore
- 10 TOCs
- 11 Ignore
- 12 Template:Infobox military unit
- 13 Bug
- 14 PROD articles
- 15 Show in template page?
Many topics in the english Wikipedia have their own navigational template. Unfortunately they are not derived from a shared template that could be excluded in print easily. But most of them include the template Template:Tnavbar. A list of templates embedding Tnavbar can be retrieved using the api. I think this is a job for a bot.--He!ko (talk) 13:05, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- Added bot request for these 4890 templates. --He!ko (talk) 20:45, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Templates to add
- Template:Fix Done
- Template:Main Done
- Template:Mbox Done
- Template:Ambox Done
- Template:Tmbox
- Template:Imbox
- Template:Cmbox
- Template:Ombox
- Template:Fmbox
- Template:Dmbox
- Template:Dablink Done
- Template:Navbox Done
- Template:See also Done
- Template:Sister Done
- Template:Click (unsure whether it should be excluded)
- Template:Portal Done
- Template:Dmoz (unsure whether it should be excluded)
- Template:Further Done
- Template:Spoken Wikipedia Done
- Template:Wiktionarypar (protected)
- Template:Details Done
- Template:Sisterlinks Done
- Template:1911 Done
- Template:Audio Done
- Template:Listen Done
- Template:Pp-meta Done
- Template:Unsolved (unsure whether it should be excluded)
- Template:Wikia Done
- Template:Spoken Wikipedia Done
- Template:Navigation Done
--He!ko (talk) 07:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- Wiktionarypar is a redirect to wiktionary. Rich Farmbrough, 10:03, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Slow to update?
I've been adding this cat to some templates, and they still aren't listed here after about 2 hours. Is there a problem? -Drilnoth (talk) 17:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
- Categories take a while to update if the categories are included through a transcluded template. You can force a page into a category by making a null edit to the page. I just did so to navbox, just to make sure everything's working properly. --- RockMFR 19:41, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
To Check
- Template:Navbox generic
- Template:Navigation tabs
- Template:Navigation templates
- Template:Navigation with columns
- Template:Small nav
- Template:Tnavbar-collapsible
- Template:Tnavbar-header
- Template:Tnavbar-navframe
- Template:Tnavbar
--He!ko (talk) 16:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
How's about...
{{Expand list}}? At the very least, the output version should be worded differently to the one suggesting that a user edit the page, no? Seegoon (talk) 22:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, this should be added to the category as it fulfills the criteria "useless in offline exports". --He!ko (talk) 23:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
Template:Succession box
Template:Succession box should probably be excluded as well, as it is the case for all the other navboxes.--Le Petit Modificateur Laborieux (talk) 05:42, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
- Depends, a case could be made even if the book is about, say, directors general of MI5. Certainly a book about Balfour's cabinet the succession boxes might be considered useful. Rich Farmbrough, 10:00, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
redirect
When we print it out, should we remove the (example)"This article is about Red Dwarf (TV series). For the star, see Red dwarf". It has no use in print. Jorggor88 (talk) 10:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
- This seems true, I'm raising the matter at Template talk:Redirect. TheGrappler (talk) 01:23, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Difference between PDF creation and printing
I understand this category excludes the corresponding template from the process of creation of a PDF book (or PDF file), but not from the direct printing of the article on a printer, right ? Should the category be renamed something like "Category:Exclude in PDF print", to make it clearer ? SyG (talk) 20:27, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Some other suggested templates to ignore
Anything in Category:"Part of a series on" templates Anything in Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
TheGrappler (talk) 04:47, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
- Yes they count as navboxen. Rich Farmbrough, 09:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
TOCs
Alternative tocage might be relevant. Rich Farmbrough, 09:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Ignore
- About family (this, other , other uses etc. ) Rich Farmbrough, 10:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC).
Template:Infobox military unit
I am trying to print a book with about 60 articles that all contain Template:Infobox military unit. I would like to add this template to the exclude in print catagory. How do I do that? Aleutian06 (talk) 21:19, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Bug
See this bug report and the google mailing list link for a description of why this category does not work as of 00:11, 31 October 2013 (UTC) and a workaround. Boud (talk) 00:11, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
- As pointed out by TheDJ, that is not really a workaround: bugzilla:50750#c3. Helder 17:39, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
- That comment refers to a hidden structure problem of using printonly to hide content from the html rendered version. This category (Exclude in print) refers to hiding content from the pdf rendered version. I meant to refer only to the noprint workaround as a temporary solution for excluding material from pdf rendered versions, which are useful for printing. I don't see hiding material for pdf generation being an accessibility problem. For example, in an ink-printed book of many Wikipedia articles put together, repeating a long infobox on every article is not useful, especially if the infobox is big (long) and mostly refers to deeper articles which are not included in the book. A printed braille version of the pdf presumably wouldn't be any better including repeats of the infobox either, it seems to me. So it doesn't seem to me that noprint would be an accessibility problem. Boud (talk) 09:54, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
PROD articles
For some reason, WP:PROD, WP:BPROD and WP:BLPPROD are included here. I can't find out why. Kranix (talk | contribs) 19:59, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Show in template page?
Can the template page itself show whether the template is listed in Exclude in print? The reason I'm asking is because I found an article that used Template:Cquote which resulted in the most important text (the quotations from legal cases) being omitted from the PDF. I changed the article to use Template:quotation, which fixed it, but it was a guess as PDF export is missing in edit preview. I couldn't find Template:pull_quote in this list but the list is long. Oliver Low (talk) 10:46, 21 July 2015 (UTC)