This could use some improvement.
The way it is now, the reader sees a subheading “Derived terms”, and below it is a grey box containing bold sub-subheading text, “Derived terms”. If their window is wide, then the actual interface “” is far removed. This is redundant and somewhat opaque.
Instead of redundant headings, why not make the main heading the interface? Why surround it with a box at all? And why have a separate widget – as long as there is an indication of collapsed state, the entire heading could expand/collapse with a click. —Michael Z. 2009-05-06 15:48 z
This template doesn't work for me on my user page, nor in Wiktionary space. Why might that be happening? How can it be fixed? DCDuring TALK 02:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, now that we got the {{der3}}
and {{rel3}}
working on the mobile frontend I suggest we retire the box-templates for derived and related terms that is not supported by a majority of users according to the vote in BP in 2018. If we need a new vote, please state so and I will create a proper one.
The following templates are proposed deleted:
{{der-top}}
{{der-mid}}
{{der-bottom}}
{{rel-top}}
{{rel-mid}}
{{rel-bottom}}
The consequences of this will be:
WDYT?--So9q (talk) 22:11, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
{{col3}}
and its sisters don't (nested lists for instance), and it's good to keep histories readable. — Eru·tuon 22:30, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
{{col3}}
by splitting them into separate lists with a header (|title=
), but I kind of like the more compact format. — Eru·tuon 06:36, 15 September 2019 (UTC){{der-top}}
and {{der-bottom}}
is being used in Han character entries for Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese compounds, so it is not possible to delete these two templates. The reason for using {{der-top}}
is because {{der3}}
consumes Lua memory whereas {{der-top}}
does not. See CAT:E for Han character entries that have already exceeded default Lua memory despite using {{der-top}}
.{{der-mid}}
and {{rel-top}}
, {{rel-mid}}
, {{rel-bottom}}
, these templates can be kept for historical reasons or deleted altogether. KevinUp (talk) 15:47, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
{{ja-r/multi}}
in 月#Japanese). But they may be less memory-efficient than {{col3}}
if they contain many instances of templates that invoke Lua (for instance, {{ko-l}}
in 學#Korean). In general the fewer Lua invocations, the less memory. — Eru·tuon 20:30, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
{{der-top}}
could be less memory-efficient if it contains a large number of Lua-invoking templates. When I tried to use {{der3}}
instead of {{der-top}}
for 學#Korean I found that {{der-top}}
used 4.04 MB compared to 4.49MB used by {{der3}}
. Since it is possible to further reduce memory for {{der-top}}
by using linking templates such as {{ja-r/multi}}
, it would not be wise to delete {{der-top}}
and {{der-bottom}}
.{{der-mid}}
and {{rel-mid}}
, these two templates can be removed, because they currently do not work as a divider, unlike {{trans-mid}}
. KevinUp (talk) 23:14, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
{{der-mid}}
, {{rel-top}}
, {{rel-mid}}
and {{rel-bottom}}
. Additionally I would like to get rid of {{rel-top3}}
and {{rel-top4}}
. {{rel-top}}
and {{rel-top3}}
is used in about 4000 pages that will need to be (bot) edited and converted to e.g. col3 when there are more than a few terms. Anyone against deleting any of these?--So9q (talk) 11:18, 9 October 2019 (UTC){{col3}}
or whatever. Anyway, I hate the terrible presentation given by {{col3}}
, and now prefer to use {{der-top3}}
etc. DonnanZ (talk) 14:23, 9 October 2019 (UTC){{rel-mid}}
and {{der-mid}}
as they have no function whatsoever (since {{der-top}}
and {{rel-top}}
use CSS columns now) and deprecate the others ({{rel-top}}
, {{rel-bottom}}
, {{rel-top3}}
and {{rel-top4}}
). WDYT?--So9q (talk) 07:54, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
{{rel-mid}}
and {{der-mid}}
were necessary once, but are now redundant. I remove them when I come across them without any ill effects. So they probably can be deleted, but keep the others. DonnanZ (talk) 09:18, 10 October 2019 (UTC)