Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> I would like to give an aggregated reply to the discussions around having
> formatting strings with {{{markers}}} to be part of #subobject declarations.
>
> Decision: we will not implement this.
>
> Reason: MediaWiki has templates for doing exactly this. SMW will not
> replicate available functionality. To get "subobjects with custom formatting"
> one can create a template that produces the format based on input parameters.
> This template can then include a #subobject call. This solution is more
> powerful (you can have arbitrarily complex formatting in templates without
> syntactic restrictions), much more robust (no conflict of {{{markers}}} and
> no hacks in the MediaWiki parser to use this syntax), readily available
> without any implementation work and already familiar to users without
> additional training. :-)
>
If the decision has already been made, then so be it. But let me just put in a
dissenting opinion: subobjects themselves are redundant in much the same way
that you say that online templates would be: there's nothing that you can do
with a subobject that you can't do with a separate page.
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