Template talk:Infobox ancient site/Archive 2 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_ancient_site/Archive_2

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There's some sort of an image 'FETCH_WIKIDATA' feature being used here, that I only noticed when I added a skeleton version of this template at Vučedol. Wikidata there seems to reference two image files, and then this gets a comma-separated list of these, and instead of generating two image thumbnails, it generates a broken upload link. Can someone fix it please? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:50, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

History indicates this was added in this 2017 edit by Capankajsmilyo, and didn't get changed since. In the meantime I noticed that module is marked as deprecated, and Module:WikidataIB#Limiting the returned values seems to deal with this kind of an issue, so it looks like a conversion is in order. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 19:02, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

I tried to reproduce/convert this at Template:Infobox ancient site/testcases#Test 6 but the issue doesn't seem to be happening there...? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 19:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

 Fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! So, the draft testcase didn't work because of that 'qid' missing? Was the rank=best change necessary or just a quality of life change? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:16, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes to the qid testcase question. I am not sure about the rank=best change; I copied it from a known working template that was trying to do the same sort of thing. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:39, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

The examples in parameters, |Location= have the country linked. Paraphrasing MOS:OVERLINK, says that countries should generally not be linked. Can this be changed? Sciencefish (talk) 08:27, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

For some sites an image is placed above the map in the infobox which I am assuming comes from wikidata. How do I turn that off? Seems like the editor should be able to decide whether to lead with the map or not. I read the infobox ancient site template page and am still clueless. An example would be Khafajah. Thanks. :-) Ploversegg (talk) 15:36, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Ok, I looked at the template source. So I can't prevent an image from being displayed but I CAN replace it with another image using the "image=X" entry. Well, half a loaf is better than none.Ploversegg (talk) 15:57, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

@Joe Roe sorry, I don't quite understand what Template_talk:Infobox_ancient_site/Archive_1#Three_dots_rather_than_one has to do with setting historic as the default marker. That's , not . As the typical ancient site is marked with a panel explaining it, this seems like a reasonable thing that readers would recognize. --07:54, 5 November 2024 (UTC) Joy (talk) 07:54, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't think the average person will automatically recognise three dots or a sign as representing an archaeological or historic sign. Since this template only shows the location of one place, there's no need to distinguish the marker from others, so the simple default dot is fine. – Joe (talk) 16:00, 6 November 2024 (UTC)