Template:ColTilesRemote: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:38, 14 September 2026

The cards for Tsadra's Tibetan collection wikis, written once and shown on all of them.

Each collection site renders this row with:

{{#ask:[[Template:ColTilesRemote]]
	|source=commons
	|format=template
	|template=ColTilesRemote
	|link=none
	|userparam={{SERVERNAME}}
}}

Passing commons.tsadra.org is what stops a site advertising itself: the value arrives as {{{#userparam}}} and each card compares it with its own host=.

To add a collection, add a {{SiteTile}} call above, wrapped in the same #ifeq. Upload its image here, not on the collection wiki — a remote #ask resolves everything on this wiki.

Note {{{#userparam}}} is hash-prefixed. {{{userparam}}} and the numbered slots are never set; this was tested against a remote query before the template was written.

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 	Template:SiteTile have to be here, and so do the images.
-	The calling site passes its own hostname as userparam, which arrives as
+	The calling site passes its own hostname as userparam. It arrives under the
-	{{{#userparam}}} -- hash-prefixed, and NOT as {{{userparam}}} or a numbered
+	HASH-PREFIXED name -- see the documentation below; the plain name and the
-	slot. Each card compares it against its own host= and renders nothing when
+	numbered slots are never set. Each card compares it against its own host=
-	they match, so a site never advertises itself. A caller that passes nothing
+	and renders nothing when they match, so a site never advertises itself. A
-	gets all four.
+	caller that passes nothing gets all four.
+	No braces in this comment: the preprocessor counts them even inside one, so
+	a triple-brace parameter named here leaves an unbalanced opener and
+	swallows the rest of the template. That is exactly what happened when this
+	page was first written -- it rendered four tiles as raw text and zero when
+	transcluded.
 	Add a collection by adding a SiteTile call. |image= is optional: upload the