Template talk:Ambox

I thought you can't use stuff from wikipedia due to licence incompatability?--216.118.68.193 22:13, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

We can't copy text from Wikipedia articles directly into our news articles. Amboxes are not used in the published articles. I am not a lawyer, but that is my interpretation of the rules. --SVTCobra 23:26, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Change coming to how certain templates will appear on the mobile web

Please help translate to your language

Example of improvements

Hello,

In a few weeks the Readers web team will be changing how some templates look on the mobile web site. We will make these templates more noticeable when viewing the article. We ask for your help in updating any templates that don't look correct.

What kind of templates? Specifically templates that notify readers and contributors about issues with the content of an article – the text and information in the article. Examples like Template:Unreferenced or Template:More citations needed. Right now these notifications are hidden behind a link under the title of an article. We will format templates like these (mostly those that use Template:Ambox or message box templates in general) to show a short summary under the page title. You can tap on the "Learn more" link to get more information.

For template editors we have some recommendations on how to make templates that are mobile-friendly and also further documentation on our work so far.

If you have questions about formatting templates for mobile, please leave a note on the project talk page or file a task in Phabricator and we will help you.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:41, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@CKoerner (WMF): We noticed some time ago that the mobile appearance of this template had been chosen in a manner that basically trashed the entire en.wn site in mobile view. Since design decisions for this template were evidently being made without regard for us, we decoupled ourselves from those decisions by deprecating this template on en.wn. We're slowly getting rid of the last uses of it here. Speaking from a design perspective, the mobile appearance inappropriately changed the nature of the template out from under existing clients — projects that were using it. --Pi zero (talk) 20:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pi zero: Hey Pi, thanks for the note. I'm sorry the past decisions to hide and format these sorts of templates have caused you frustration. I hope the recommendations I mention in the announcement (which apply to pretty much any template, not just the kind we're talking about) are useful to you. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:50, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

PNG --> SVG

{{editprotected}} I suggest to replace by , like for {{Xambox}}. Thomas Linard (talk) 22:18, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Done --Pi zero (talk) 22:30, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! Thomas Linard (talk) 22:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Move documentation to /doc

{{editprotected}}

Move documentation to /doc. As any other template --Dr03ramos (talk) 23:37, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

This is a template which is no longer in use. I am not convinced it is worth the effort, and besides, keeping the license information on this page is a must (GNU FDL), so might as well leave the info here -- it is a historical template, after all.
•–• 02:56, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

Done but we need to rationalise the message boxes at some point. [₂₄Cr][talk] 06:08, 24 August 2021 (UTC)