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Template:Interwikitmp-grpNN usage
Interwikitmp-grpNN usage, Ver: Pass-2c 9-12-06, supercedes 9-05-2006 version.
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Interwikitmp-grpNN usage notes
This is common 'Usage notes' for the Interwiki template linking and tracking system management templates. The purpose of the system is to promote interwiki editor efficiency by providing tool templates that have been developed and debugged on one sister project or another to the other English language sister's, and establish a commonality of such tools which enhance the productivity of the volunteer editor's of all such projects, including enhancing the effectiveness of 'visiting contributions' to another sister one does not usually contribute on, and furthering all such projects sponsored by the {{#if:Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)|Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)|Wikimedia Foundation}}.
The individual {{#if:sister projects|sister projects|Wikipedia:Sister projects}} link tagging templates are denoted XXXXtmp' where the prefix 'XXXX' indicates one of the mnemonic sister project names like 'Wiktionary', WikiBooks, WikiSpecies, Commons, and the like, and 'tmp' is short for template, or more correctly, 'template linking template'. These individual templates are grouped into an array for universal tagging in the above grouping templates, thus providing links to each for maintenance and version cross checking.
This page is usually included by the key templates of that system, namely one or more of {{Interwikitmp-grp{{#if:||{{{2}}}}}{{#if:||{{{3}}}}}{{#if:||{{{4}}}}}{{#if:||etc.}}}}, {{Interwikitmp-grp0{{#if:||{{{2}}}}}{{#if:||{{{3}}}}}{{#if:||{{{4}}}}}{{#if:||etc.}}}}, {{Interwikitmp-grp1{{#if:||{{{2}}}}}{{#if:||{{{3}}}}}{{#if:||{{{4}}}}}{{#if:||etc.}}}},..., {{Interwikitmp-grp6{{#if:||{{{2}}}}}{{#if:||{{{3}}}}}{{#if:||{{{4}}}}}{{#if:||etc.}}}}, etc., which differ in the autocategories they apply to the tool or utility templates they have been devised to tag, port from sister to sister, and manage between same.
The meaning and mapping of the numeric suffixes is delineated in Table I of {{Interwikitmp-grps see also}} which is normally separately included by one of the forgoing control templates. This brings it into display on those pages, so it is not visible herein, else multiple occurrences should occur in those.
- 'XXXXtmp' template notes
- Once template scope and any name-conflicts are established, a more precise 'Interwikitmp-grpNN' template is chosen for the group as a whole on the basis of categorization. The Interwikitmp-grpNN template displays auto links to sister projects pages in it's separate elements.
When an circumstance occurs when a template has no purpose on a particular sub-group of sister projects (too narrow a scope, or just different missions of the particular sister), use the set of unsuffixed 'XXXXtmp' templates separately or in small groups to tag templates that do not have usefulness, purpose, nor representation on all sister's, but which occur non-the-less on few scattered sisters.
The 'XXXXtmp' templates do only one type of auto-categorizing to the local Category:Interwiki utility templates, which unless otherwise noted, all template tagging autocategorizes tagged templates into. (This is under reconsideration due to pro's and con's, another catchall category may be used instead, or as well, such as Category:Templates on all sister projects).
The 'XXXXtmp' array as a whole must be used in a manual tagging for such templates that have a name collision with an extant template on one or more sister projects. Examples: 'Tl'/'tl', 'S'/'s', 'W'/'w', 'C'/'c' and 'Cat' were all templates that could not be given universally consistent names. Work around names 'TL', 'W2', 'W2c', 'SP, and 'CAT' were established to provide the same function on the unaffected sister projects. Other measures are also in place for such exceptions; see Table II.
Template:Interwikitmp-grpNN usage/doc Notes:
- Pass-2 Interwiki template tagging strategy required simplification and splitting management templates by functionality creating various interwikitmp-grpNN templates with 'KISS principle' refinements; each one does different autocategorization, and troublesome recursive self-calling by the work-horse template {{interwikitmp-grp{{#if:||{{{2}}}}}{{#if:||{{{3}}}}}{{#if:||{{{4}}}}}{{#if:||etc.}}}} was eliminated, as was the need for complicated perameter logic to properly autocategorize any given template.
The trade-off was a family of much simpler, easier to understand and maintain templates with a numeric suffix that maps the proper category into the tagged template. It should be obvious that regardless of what a sister's template tagging heirarcy of cataloging before, this uniformity will intersect and extend it, albeit in sensible ways that are usually compatible on the observed overlapping on the more long-established sister projects.
This commonality of categories is seen as a boon to interwiki cross-editing and productivity. When having a need to make a visiting edit on a sister, editor's of all projects will have at least one known entry into the category tree of the visited sister project.
- This strategy results in a much simpler set of templates with straightforward autocategorization differences (re: TABLE I in {{Interwikitmp-grps see also}}) and satisfies various categorization needs and goals, besides the 'Pass-1' feasibility proofing tests and formulation of the system in late August, 2006.
- Pass 2 and 2a were current ongoing upgrades early September 2006, that by mid month extended the '2a' changes into a '2c' (i.e. a 4th version or refinement variation) but primarily reflect the forking into multiple 'tmp-grpNN' suite of templates with some compensating change revisions driven as experience dictacted on various sister projects.
In general, 'Pass-2' changes deal solely with the interconnection templates formulation into a more flexible but KISS principle standardized template set of templates compatible across all systems Sites.
These changes also include some refinements and standardization to the 'XXXXtmp' 'individual sister link display and tagging templates, but these are sometimes subtle and need not be detailed. Mostly, the changes also eliminate the recursive effects that manifested by using a single main group of templates to tag both the system components and the targeted utility or tools templates.
