https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23427
--- Comment #25 from Bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> 2011-08-21 17:00:58 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> Those links are likely generated by JavaScript, right ? That has access to
> these variables already.
> If it's not done by JavaScript, then it should probably be an extension
> implementing something like <sociallinks /> which would output shortlinks and
> stuff for social networks. Agian, not wikitext so has access to these
> variables
> already.
On Wikinews we have a wiki template, that uses javascript as a _really ugly_
hack to re-write url's to use the page_id (see [[n:template:Social
Bookmarks]]). Ideally that template would just be plain wiki-markup. I don't
really see how this is any more a technical implementation detail than say
{{REVISIONID}} is. I also think social bookmark links are the ideal case for a
template - Its just a link to some other websites, and presumably with time the
user would want to change which websites as different one's gain in popularity.
There is really not anything that weird about these links requiring an
extension (imho)
(Obviously the use-cases here aren't exactly earth-shattering, but they do
exist, and the negative consequences of yet another semi-useless magic word are
minimal in my opinion)
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