Template talk:IA

This is excellent! I have the following suggestions, which I'll implement if I don't hear objections in a week or so.


 * Change about= to tab= and have the value be what is put in the "tab=" param (i.e. tab=about to add that to the URL.
 * What other expected values are there? If "about" is the only salient option (considering it's the other tab by default), then the template should prevent mistakes by always going to "about." lethargilistic (talk) 19:35, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That makes sense -- the only other value I've seen is the (mostly unused) forums, e.g. https://archive.org/details/movies?tab=forum and that's probably not worth the trouble. JesseW (talk) 20:13, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Add support for archive.org/metadata/ (including the additional parts of the path to filter down the metadata), via a metadata= param.
 * Add arbitrary path= param to add an arbitrary string after the details/identifier to support pagination for mediatype:text, and track selection for mediatype:audio (and presumably others I don't remember right now?).
 * Use plainlinks styling to remove the external link icon.
 * External links on a wiki are expected to be marked as such. lethargilistic (talk) 19:35, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I was mainly thinking of the thumbnail option, where not having the extra icon might look nicer. But it's very much a style thing.
 * Maybe re-add the IA icon, or at least make it optional?
 * I seriously do not think we should build the image into the basic link template. The reason I included it was to make the external links look nicer, not to pepper the articles with the IA logo. This template should be about forming basic links to the archive and other templates can make use of it. lethargilistic (talk) 19:38, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Makes sense! JesseW (talk) 20:13, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Again, very nice work. JesseW (talk) 16:10, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll look into the other features later. Creating a /Sandbox subpage would be a good idea for experimenting. lethargilistic (talk) 19:35, 30 May 2020 (UTC)