Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Transclude templates by relevant historical version

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Thank you

Hi @1233can you provide an example of a template that had changes? JWheeler-WMF (talk) 18:47, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

I think that happens at anywhere - i.e. any articles that uses navigation templates. These template change with time, like articles, (it's normal) , but when I look at history, it always calls out the most recent version of that template, instead I'd hope to have an option to call out the relevant historical version of the template. 1233 （T / C） 23:46, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Example(s) would nevertheless be useful. Btw you can also check if the Internet Archive has a previous version of the article, it shows the article as it was including how the Wikipedia interface looked in the past, and older versions of templates. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Yeah but probably this is not the intended way though.

Here is an example. Take the article en:Europe as an example, the navigation template is directly transcluded, and that the 2014 version of it have included the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

If the template is transcluded, it will not show that and that seems to be correctly captured by the internet archive. But not all articles have that. It will also be good to see if deleted photos can show the "Photo deleted" instead of a red link for those historical versions. 1233 （T / C） 04:32, 5 August 2024 (UTC)