On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, go moko gom...@yahoo.com wrote:
So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is a
mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are necessary
for it to work properly.
I don't know if such a tool exist, but could it bea
On 25 August 2011 08:28, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:31 PM, go moko gom...@yahoo.com wrote:
So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is a
mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are necessary
for it to
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote:
You mean like… checking the “Include templates” box on Special:Export?
I guess that's what I mean, it's been a few years since I last saw
Special:Export - long enough that I have no idea whether that box is from
before
On 25 August 2011 10:47, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
But the problem is more difficult than that. MediaWiki has no chance
of knowing which templates are “necessary for it to work properly”, it
can only detect those that are _actually used_ in a specific use case
(as you say,
It could frequently come out a big problem of collisions with existing
templates with different code. I feel that synonimous templates, with
different features, are a very subtle and harmful touble. This raises the
long-standing problem of redundancy and coherence so deeply afflicting
anything
Note that things like {{Cite}} and {{trim}} should probably
be an extension that adds a parser function, not a template.
Although the overlap between extensions adding parser
functions and and templates getting tighter with WikiScripts,
in general templates are for re-used wikitext and
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the
{{citeFoo}} templates, but
On 20.08.2011, 22:23 Martijn wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
familiar with) has many very usefull templates,
2011/8/20 Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com:
Don't forget, English is one of 300-something languages we support.
And users of other languages typically don't feel comfortable with
using English templates, because words like cite book, author and
link are meaningless to them.
Translating the
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20.08.2011, 22:23 Martijn wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
- Original Message -
From: Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
familiar
2011/8/20 Łukasz Garczewski t...@wikia-inc.com:
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that
On 20 August 2011 21:01, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote:
+25. I had to pull the book citation template out of Wikipedia to use it
on a Wikia site, and it was a 2 hour process.
Yes. Speaking as a MediaWiki tarball user (at work), this doesn't
require a fork (as Fred contemplates) - it
On 20 August 2011 21:01, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote:
+25. Â I had to pull the book citation template out of Wikipedia to use
it
on a Wikia site, and it was a 2 hour process.
Yes. Speaking as a MediaWiki tarball user (at work), this doesn't
require a fork (as Fred contemplates) -
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20.08.2011, 22:23 Martijn wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 20.08.2011, 22:23 Martijn wrote:
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English
- Original Message -
From: Sumurai8 (DD) sumur...@gmail.com
To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com
So, if I can express some simple opinion, perhaps what would be useful is
a mean to easily export/import a template and all those which are
necessary for it to work properly.
I don't know if such a tool exist, but could it bea (partial) solution?
G. Moko
(Forgive my poor english...)
If
IMHO, the idea of a decent set of common, shared, english-named, standard
templates is really a a good one. Noone have nothing against the fact that
reserved words of any programming language is english-named and standard.
I presume, that many of existing templates aren't used into ns0 or other
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