https://wiki.retrotechcollection.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Template_talk%3ANavbox-IBMComputers 2026-09-30T14:43:26Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0 https://wiki.retrotechcollection.com/index.php?title=Template_talk:Navbox-IBMComputers&diff=12894&oldid=prev 2026-09-24T20:31:09Z

<p>Explain the navbox-unwritten convention and how to restore an entry when its page is written</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Entries with no page yet ==<br /> <br /> This navbox lists the full model range, including machines the wiki has not<br /> covered. Entries without a page are rendered as &#039;&#039;&#039;plain grey text&#039;&#039;&#039; rather<br /> than as red links:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;span class=&quot;navbox-unwritten&quot;&amp;gt;Model name&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> A navbox is transcluded on hundreds of articles, so its red links appear on<br /> every one of them &amp;mdash; this template alone was putting several hundred red<br /> links on each page that used it. Greying them out keeps the model range visible<br /> without that.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;When you write one of these pages&#039;&#039;&#039;, convert its entry back to an ordinary<br /> link. `wiki-tooling/navbox_greyout.py` does both directions automatically<br /> against the wiki&#039;s live page list &amp;mdash; run it after any batch of new pages:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;python3 navbox_greyout.py # report only<br /> python3 navbox_greyout.py --apply # edit the navboxes&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> The &lt;code&gt;.navbox-unwritten&lt;/code&gt; style is defined in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]<br /> and has a dark-mode variant.</div>

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