User:Pengo/teletaxo
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I could never describe myself as a deletionist, but I am all for hiding information that isn't immediately useful.
So here's my proposal for a telescopic taxobox, allowing taxonomic groups which are currently missing to be simply hidden, rather than absent:
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{{Taxobox
| image = Pleorodeles_waltl.jpg
| image_caption = In an aquarium
| color = pink
| name = Iberian Ribbed Newt
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| unranked_phylum = [[Bilateria]]
| unranked_phylum_hide = true
| superphylum = [[Deuterostomia]]
| superphylum_hide = true
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| superclassis = [[Tetrapoda]]
| superclassis_hide = true
| classis = [[Amphibia]]
| subclassis = [[Lissamphibia]]
| subclassis_hide = true
| ordo = [[Urodela]]
| familia = [[Salamandridae]]
| genus = ''[[Pleurodeles]]''
| species = '''''P. waltl'''''
| binomial = ''Pleurodeles waltl''
| binomial_authority = ...
| range_map = ...
}}
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The shrunk version is more readable. The expanded version is more complete. And this way little compromise needs to be made between them. A third click could perhaps hide the classifcation all together, and show just the binomial name.
I was hoping the mechanism could coopt the Hide/Show button from the Table of Contents box, but my attempts have so far failed (see /teletaxotest). A page that does does something similar (but hides the whole box, not just parts) is here: User:Essjay/CVU/IRC/Verifications
Which classifications would be hidden would be set per species or taxon. (see parameters ending in _hide in the proposed template usage above).
Anyway, I've pretty much given up on making this myself. I suspect it would need some extra Javascript that would have to be added to the main javascript file of the Wikipedia. But anyone else who wants to give it a go, please do.
Note: I have noticed that the metadata on images is collapsable, and maybe the javascript it uses can be hijacked. (e.g. see Metadata section on Australia_Cairns_Koala.jpg) but I haven't attempted to use this approach as yet.
More ideas and other thoughts like this at my rants page.
