Template:Created with Inkscape has been protected indefinitely because it is a highly-used or visible template. Use {{Edit request}} on this page to request an edit.
So can someone explain to me why this template and any others like it are not blatant wikispam? Wikimedia do not exist to promote commercial products, however useful they may be to someone. <grumble, murmur, lumber back into cave> — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib]ツ 10:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Inkscape is free/open-source software. Templates such as this one point users and editors to free software they can use to create free works. Rl 15:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I like this so I will use it. Although I'm concerned about the legality of this whitin Wikimedia policy --Andersmusician$ 03:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
No need to be concerned. Wikimedia is interested in helping people find free tools they can use to create free content. See meta:Talk:Open Source ToolsetRl 17:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
I must say I use Inkscape all the time, and am for the most part quite happy with it, but I agree with SMcCandlish that this is essentially spam. Brianski 07:38, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
{{editprotect}} The old official logo File:Inkscape logo 2.svg has been superseded by the current official one File:Inkscape Logo.svg. In the source plz replace "Inkscape logo 2.svg" by "Inkscape Logo.svg". --Tomchen1989 (talk) 12:34, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Done (Well, if somebody is able to spot the difference…) --Mormegil (talk) 09:45, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
The /doc umentation is not protected to make it possible for users who are not administrators to categorize the template and add language links. -- Rillke(q?) 22:24, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Why is the grey background box in this template so long? It is far longer than needed to contain the English text. Is this a bug as a result of internationalization, perhaps to accommodate an equivalent character string in another language that requires much more space? — Quicksilver@ 22:08, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
You are right, the box is indeed too long. It is coded to use 100% of the width currently available, i.e. the remaining space in the {{Information}} box. It is longer if you use it outside; when you set erroneously taggings like {{ValidSVG}} (or others like {{Inkscape}}) as parameters to the Other fieldswithout{{Information field}}, the boxes are created unavoidably advancing the 'Informaton' box, above of it.
You may see an example of the intended correct use at IEC-906-1-plug.svg.
Because of the templates protection state it is not so easy to find a swift solution; as it would be to allow a new parameter e.g. width. You can always write an embracing div statement, like <div style="width:40%">{{Created with Inkscape}}</div>. This would shorten the box, with the (not so bad) consequence that text in more talkative languages than English will need two lines.
At the moment we have these languages for {{Inkscape}}:
They all got a width of 40%, except the English version which got 60% to highlight it. You see that for most languages 40% is enough to express everything in one line.
If you think it useful, make a suggestion for the implementation of an additional optional parameter for this template which will overwrite the 100% value. Sorry, my English is not so good, I am not a native speaker sarang♥사랑 07:51, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
The parameter expansions I inserted in the documentation.
Admin, before you change the protection status to "frozen" you may discuss with me how to ensure that no errors will occur. Thanks sarang♥사랑 09:37, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
The complete source code to be copied:
{{#ifeq:{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}|v|{{ValidSVG|opt=&ss=1}}|{{#if:{{{err|}}}|{{InvalidSVG|opt=&ss=1|err={{{err}}}}}}}}}<!--
-->{{Autotranslate|1={{{1|}}}|2=Inkscape Logo.svg|3=Inkscape|4={{{IMPORTANT|}}}|base=Created with Inkscape|width={{{width|}}}}}<noinclude>
{{documentation}}
</noinclude>
Done, though the new version comes with a slight problem: {{v}} display the valid SVG tag but also displays as "...created with Inkscape by v". We should either check for v and then supply an empty author or just make v the second parameter and not look at the first param when deciding whether to display the valid SVG tag. Regards, --ChrisiPK(Talk|Contribs) 12:22, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Since it is possible to use {{ValidSVG}} / {{InvalidSVG}} as sub-templates, it seems an advantage to pass parameters to them. Additional to the width and style parameters for Inkscape, it should be possible to set independent values to the width and style parameters for Valid/InvalidSVG.
It is now mentioned in the documentation, but because the template itself is protected it is not yet implemeted there. --- Now Done
See e.g. {{Created with Sodipodi}} how the additional parameters are passed to Valid/InvalidSVG. sarang♥사랑 16:41, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
{{Edit request}} Could someone fix it? Thanks in advance.--Carnby (talk) 21:25, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Can you be more specific? Powers (talk) 19:59, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
Well, in this template, I found Chinese simp. version shown 本矢量图形使用Inkscape创作。., Chinese trad. version shown 本向量圖形使用Inkscape創作。.. All of them have an additional dot behind the full stop. --Great Brightstar (talk) 08:41, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Would it help and work for you, if 。. is reduced to an US-ASCII . period? In that case you could simply delete the 。 in {{Created with Inkscape/zh-hans}} and {{Created with Inkscape/zh-hant}}. These files are not protected. DO NOT TOUCH IT UNLESS YOU ARE A NATIVE CHINESE PERSON KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT UNICODE POINT THIS ACTUALLY IS. @Sarang:, IIRC you fixed a double dot issue for German. –Be..anyone (talk) 03:29, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Done (Well, if somebody is able to spot the difference…) --Mormegil (talk) 09:45, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
