Template talk:Patent

Revisions to the template discussed Oct 16 2024

We discuss adding location info, perhaps with a list of strings, looking like this. "Administrative unit" is a term for jurisdiction or location that is independent of the country:

|Administrative unit=Paris; Seine

or

|Administrative unit=Seine

or

|Administrative unit=St. Louis; Missouri

or

|Administrative unit=London

or

|Administrative unit=Dayton; Ohio

If there's more than one inventor, it would be acceptable to list multiple locations:

|Administrative unit=London; Paris

And moving out of the template these variables:

|Application number=
|Application ID=
|INPADOC family ID=

And change

|Citations from after 1930=

to

|Citations from after 1948=

More ideas

We may want to move Application ID, Application number, and INPADOC id into the wikitext, or into another template, or a single list or simple HTML comments Data should be in a template if there is a need to query it in Cargo, or sort it. So maybe we should just move those fields into wikitext or HTML comments . . . but then the data can't be exported either.

Let's make sure, when we update Mediawiki and Cargo, to back all the text up in multiple places and the pix too. In Nov or Dec 2024.

We can do a lot of the field-moving-around with ReplaceText. LTA says:ReplaceText only processes 250 pages at a time by default. To change this, you can set $wgReplaceTextResultsLimit to a larger value in your LocalSettings.php. However, you may be limited by PHP's max_input_vars; if the extension reports such a warning, you may need to change it. 21:03 LTA says: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

We discuss the possibility of a new table for either locations or administrative units.