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This is a minor point, but I think it would be preferable to change Religion to Religious affiliation. It seems awkward every time I change a school infobox to say Religion: None. --Jh12 (talk) 19:21, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
|religion=
parameter altogether and it won't show. Of course, |religion=None
actually makes perfect sense for public schools :-) RossPatterson (talk) 21:30, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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To reflect this version of the sandbox. Changes include:
this version this version
--Paul_012 (talk) 15:01, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Since this redirects from "High School" it should probably be cataloged separately under that heading. Just shows up now under "school".
Template:Infobox Secondary school seems to duplicate this to some extent. It looks newer and more aimed at American schools. I wish (in a given country) we did not have to decide between competing formats. I've been using this one all along. The new one has (among others) athletics= which is a pain. I'll bet there are others. Student7 (talk) 11:31, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
((editprotected)) I've made some additional changes to the sandbox version. Could they be migrated to the production version? ~ PaulT+/C 22:24, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
((Infobox School
| educational authority = test
| religious affiliation = test2))
((Infobox School/sandbox
| educational authority = test
| religious affiliation = test2))
((Infobox School
| educational_authority = test
| religious_affiliation = test2))
((Infobox School/sandbox
| educational_authority = test
| religious_affiliation = test2))
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While I am aware "that it is not generally recommended to specify different colors for Infobox templates," I am curious if there is a way to override the text color, in addition to the background colors. I noticed today that someone chose to change the background color in State College High School to match the school color, and now the headings are very difficult to read. While I don't believe it is necessary to edit the bgcolor of an infobox, I have no interest in getting into an edit war reverting the colors, and would rather have the ability to change the text color. Does anyone else have any thoughts on the subject? -Gr0ff (talk) 16:06, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
While I certainly agree that the wrong colors can ruin an infobox by making it difficult to read (especially with darker colors) I don't agree the color option should be completely disabled. If someone chooses a color for an infobox that is difficult to read, revert it. Perhaps only the heading bars (school name, address, and information) could have a color option and maybe a text color option for when a background color is too dark for black text to be read easily. I'm not going to make a big deal out of this because it's really not that important, but the color option just makes it a little bit more visually appealing and interesting to me. --JonRidinger (talk) 06:03, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
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Please change | class="fn org" colspan="2" bgcolor=lavender style="text-align: center; font-size: larger;"
at the top of the template to | class="fn org" colspan="2" bgcolor=lavender style="text-align: center; font-size: 10.5pt;"
This will slightly change the font size of the header listing the school's name to be the same size as that of Template:Infobox Secondary school and Template:Infobox University. It's not a major change, but if you want to know why please see User talk:Rhatsa26X; I'm trying to explain to him that the way to fix some things in a template is not to edit every article with the template. Thanks, Reywas92Talk 03:14, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
font-size: larger;
should be changed to font-size: 120%
instead. --Paul_012 (talk) 05:52, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
I edited the sandbox to remove the three-pixel cell padding specification and removed the background colours while changing the labels to bold table headers. This helps reduce the considerable length the infobox takes a bit. Opinions? If no one objects, I'll request an edit in a few days. Please place an ((editprotected)) tag when an agreement has been met. --Paul_012 (talk) 13:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC), 16:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
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If possible, could an optional parameter be introduced for background colour enabling an over-ride of the current default lavender background? It shouldn't be too hard to introduce and won't need any further tidy up as all pages will retain lavender as default, but will enable userboxes where lavender isn't appropriate/clashes with background on coat of arms to be editted accordingly. Cheers, DJR (T) 00:11, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I don't want to sound US-centric, but I notice that when the county is added, it is added to the address information, despite the fact that this is not usually included in American street addresses. Would it be a good idea (?) or doable to list the county somewhere else in the infobox?
Also, I note that "school colors" will not display, but "school colours" does. Its no big deal to me, but someone always comes along and moves the info from "colours" to "colors", and then it doesn't show up. It is a bit of a pain to revert this.
Otherwise, it is a great design! LonelyBeacon (talk) 16:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
((editprotected)) Can you add italics around the displayed results for both |newspaper=
and |yearbook=
? As publications, they should both always have italics. Thanks! Esrever (klaT) 00:05, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Kingturtle changed WP:NOT to disallow school addresses and started removing the addresses from schools. Since it's still a parameter here, there's a disconnect somewhere. Should we include street addresses, or remove the parameter?--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:56, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
You might want to take it over to Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#School street addresses, then -- that's probably a better central discussion location.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I work in a school with an intermittent/non-existent internet connection, but would like the kids to work on a page for the school for the English language wiki anyway. I downloaded the mediawiki software and thats ok. Then I downloaded some school sites, many of which used the infobox school template. So I downloaded the infobox template. And then I downloaded a seemingly unending stream of templates trying to get the infobox template to work.
Can anyone give me a concise list of what I need to do to get infobox school template to work on my offline wiki?
Thanks. Jfmxl (talk) 13:08, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
The Ofsted number parameter seems to be broken. Should we change
((!)) [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=(({ofsted))} (({ofsted))}]
to
((!)) [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxcare_providers/urn_search?type=2&urn=(({ofsted))} (({ofsted))}]
? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:54, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
Is there a reason that the chief custodian is listed in the infobox? This does not seem to be a notable position, and it is a target for mischievous students to put the names of their friends or school principal in there. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 01:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
These show up twice if they are in lat/long or explicit display format. Can we supress from the infobox if it is in lat/lon, or completely. Rich Farmbrough, 01:20, 27 August 2009 (UTC).
Session is supported but not documented It needs to be either documented or removed. Thanks. 72.244.200.24 (talk) 03:51, 4 September 2009 (UTC).
While working through List of schools in Jamaica adding the infobox, I've noticed that quite a few of them use their initials as a well known (in the country) abbreviation. Would someone kindly add:
|abbreviation =
This field is supported by ((Infobox Organization)) so perhaps you can lift the code?
Note that this is not the same as "Nickname"; some schools use both. -Arb. (talk) 13:05, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Could we add "Deputy head" (possibly 1&2) as this is a commonly used title in the UK
((editprotected)) For WP:ACCESSIBILITY by visually impaired readers, this template should support alternative text for images (please see WP:ALT for details). I've implemented this in the sandbox and have documented and tested the result. Can you please install the sandbox patch? Thanks. Eubulides (talk) 08:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Might it make sense to add a field for telephone number? Tophtucker (talk) 04:44, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Look at the edit history. I made two attempts to edit this thing so that instead of seeing
I would see
since apparently that's what was meant and it was not clear. And still isn't. But as you can see if you look at the appearance in article, of the template with my edits, that's not what appeared.
So how do you do something like this? Michael Hardy (talk) 05:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
((editprotected)) I think "CEEB Code" should link to College Board#CEEB Code rather than just College Board. DH85868993 (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Can we reorder the Heads so that Executive Head is above other Heads? Are there any objections? CS46 17:38, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Most New Zealand schools have until now used ((Infobox NZ school)) instead of this one. We're discussing deprecating it in favour of this template at Template talk:Infobox NZ school#Years, but there is a change we would like to this template, to automatically add a category for New Zealand schools. The reasons are explained there and there is some discussion about the appropriate mechanism. Comments are welcome.-gadfium 19:38, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Wanted to know how to fit in Alumni Association information into the school infobox. I think this is quite common in schools right? I am trying to edit St. Xavier's Collegiate School and add alumni information as something like this-
|amulni =ALSOC [http://www.alsoc.org]
Any suggestions/comments? Mataal (talk) 18:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Per WP:OVERLINK, country names should not be linked by default. Is there any chance of removing the link? There are also some errors of capitalization in the template. --John (talk) 03:40, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone put the font size back to normal so this looks like infoboxes in other articles? M.montessori (talk) 02:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
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The Coordinates property in School Infobox didn't show up on the wiki page.
Sample: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Sui_Ki_%28La_Salle%29_College
Winston (talk) 11:54, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
| coordinates = ((coord|22.319431|N|114.183462|E|type:edu|display=inline,title))
when you needed:
| coordinates = ((coord|22.319431|N|114.183462|E|type:edu|display=title))
This is not a template issue. -- /DeltaQuad|Notify Me\ 14:59, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Why do we have address and phone number parameters in this ibox? We don't have them in any other one that I know of, we just limit location details to city/town, state and country, as anything more detailed is considered WP:DIRECTORY and/or WP:SPAM. What is the rationale for having them in this templates? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 16:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to list former heads under their own category. Currently I'm making do with this: on the Dubai College page. I've tried but failed; how do I use the 'head_label', and 'head_name' categories? bigforrap (talk) 00:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Infobox school/Archive 2 | |
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Information | |
Campus | campus name |
Campus type | campus type |
According to the instructions, "|campus=
" is supposed to be the name of the campus while "|campus type=
" is supposed to be the type of campus. However, both fields use the same name as shown in the example. To avoid confusion, the displayed title for "|campus type=
" should be "Campus type". Relevant portion of the code is:
((#if: (({campus type<includeonly>|</includeonly>))} | ! Campus ((!)) (({campus type))}
--AussieLegend (talk) 08:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I found this template whilst trying to fix pages that link to [Public School]. You automatically link to this page when someone puts "Public" in the "fundingtype" field. It really should link to an actual page rather than a disabiguation page, but there are two possible pages it could mean, mostly depending on the location of the school. I have no idea how one would go about fixing this. Escapepea (talk) 21:39, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
On the template page, logo is listed as one of the possible parameters in one portion, but not others. In use, all it does is supplant the previously provided file from the image parameter with the plaintext filename of the parameter. Am I doing it incorrectly? If not, could someone fix this? NSWMaps (talk) 03:17, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
|picture=
or |picture2=
. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:47, 28 March 2011 (UTC)While adding infoboxes for USA Primary and Secondary Schools, I have found a useful reference source that would, IMHO, make a good addition to this template. The NCES CCD website has fairly current enrollment numbers for most US Primary and Secondary schools. By including this reference code, I would suggest that it would make the job of updating enrollment for future years much easier. It also appears that there are already similar codes in the template for UK and NZ Schools. If you take a look at Hommocks Middle School, you will see how I have included the information using one of the free fields.--Arg342 (talk) 02:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I scanned the archives to see if it had already been proposed, so pardon me if it has been before. What of a field for "sister schools"? At least in the areas I am trying to clean up the infoboxes for, would it make sense to have a field noting the existence of a sister school (i.e. when there are two traditionally-linked single-sex schools who coordinate activities, e.g. dances, that would be impossible or unusual were they to do them alone), that are not "feeder schools" per se as they exist for the same grade levels. It is, IMO, rather as equal in importance to the section on "rivals", as some of these links have existed for decades and are an integral part of understanding the schools (and which schools link to which). Thank you for the consideration. Morgan Riley (talk) 03:27, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
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Please copy the sandbox version Template:Infobox school/sandbox to the live version Template:Infobox school to implement new fields. Note that the the sandbox has the ((template sandbox notice)) instead of ((documentation)) at the bottom. Of course, the template should have the documentation tag when done.
This request will implement new fields sister_school, us_nces_district_id, and us_nces_school_id. The use of the new fields is demonstrated in sandbox test case 4. I don't see any ill side effects with the new version.
These new fields were discussed in the above sections 'Suggestion for new entry for USA schools: NCES School ID' and 'Proposed new field: "Sister school"?'. Neither had significant objections. The last comment for each was 16 days ad 9 days ago respectively.
Also note the I have updated the live documentation Template:Infobox school/doc in anticipation of fulfillment of this request, however the new fields in the documentation are carefully noted as not yet available.
Arg342 (talk) 13:22, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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I see that the address and the name have hCard microdata applied to them. However, the URL does not have hCard microdata. Can someone add the hCard microdata info to the URL?
Saiarcot895 (talk) 19:12, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
I have been working on an article or two and went to the trouble of looking up a CEEB code for a US high school. Afterwards I thought about this and did a little research. As far as I can tell, CEEB codes are only used by the bureaucracy at the College Board to identify a school. They do not seem to be used by the press or by any useful lookup tool that I could find. Should this be removed from the template? --Arg342 (talk) 12:10, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Frequently, links to Orange are added via the colors/colours line of this template. Yet that page is a disambiguation; neither Orange (fruit) nor Orange (colour) is clearly the primary topic.
Could a message warning editors to link to the latter and not the former be added to the documentation for the template?
Violet and Lime are also DABs, and Silver and Gold describe the metals. I don't know if they come up as often. Cnilep (talk) 05:19, 26 August 2011 (UTC)