Talk:List of solar eclipses in the 20th century

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Aminabzz in topic Non-central

Dates and Microformats

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This article includes dates in the format:

<span style="display:none">1914-08-21</span>{{nowrap|21 August 1914}}

Why is that? It might be better to use {{Start date}}, and to wrap each table row in an hCalendar microformat. This can best be one by making a template for each row; see, for example, {{Episode list}}, which does the same thing for television programmes. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 13:43, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

I put in the display:none segments so that sortable worked properly (i.e. so that you could click on the date column to re-order the rows by that column, without e.g. 21 August 1914 coming before 21 January 1914). The nowrap was just to avoid the rows wrapping. It's probably not the optimal way, but it works, and does so without too much overhead. Mike Peel (talk) 14:02, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
I can see the sense in that (don't dates sort correctly, otherwise?) and have suggested modifying {{Start date}} to the same end. Meanwhile, we could still proceed with the creation of and conversion to a template. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 18:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)Reply
I've just found out that {{Sort}} exists, which might do the job here. Also see {{Sortname}}. Mike Peel (talk) 10:18, 4 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
That's good - but I would still like to proceed with the row-template and microformat idea. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 18:19, 4 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Why? What's the benefit? (I'm not against the idea; I just don't see the benefits.) Mike Peel (talk) 19:45, 4 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
A reasonable question! It will make the data available as metadata, so that it can be re-used by software and web services. See for instance, the "Timeline" external link at the foot of List of crossings of the Willamette River. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Where are we with this? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:46, 16 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Update Dec 2009

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I replaced the "sortable" table. The original was unacceptably slow, taking many minutes for format in my IE8 browser.

Re-instated sort. Seems fine now, on a not especially fast machine. Revert if it's not...--Gergyl (talk) 07:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

This replacement table lost some useful information on visibility, which I'll try to extract later from the history.

The OTHER centuries listed at List of solar eclipses are still using the old sortable list and slow!

Also I removed items from the "notable" list at the top. FALSE:

UNREFERENCED and uncleaar NOTABILITY

SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 05:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hmmmm... Even my simple table was taking 30 seconds to build. I removed the Template:Coord and this seemed to speed things up. SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 05:29, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

Missing column: Location

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All the other pages in this project previous to 20th have the 'Location' column with a lat/long. The template used here doesn't, is there a reason? CHAIRBOY () 23:57, 4 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Lat/long was data ignored on the individual current eclipse event stat tables, not greatly valuable since the path can't be summarized by a single position. It is available at the source data [1]. OH! And the GPS linking, I think that was slowing down page building at some point. Maybe its more efficient now? Tom Ruen (talk) 00:11, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
The single location seems to be for the point of Greatest Eclipse, which is still valuable data. Might be worth putting back in if that data's available. - CHAIRBOY () 19:00, 17 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Move discussion in progress

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Non-central

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The non-central eclipses aren't labeled on the table. Aminabzz (talk) 15:03, 22 August 2023 (UTC)Reply