On Sunday 20 April 2008 18:54:55 Mediawiki wrote: You may try http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Data .

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Mediawiki wrote: You can do this if you put a long list of #if statements in another template and nest them accordingly. For example if you have template DepartmentHeads, you could have {{ #ifeq: {{{1}}} | Dept X | Smith }} {{ #ifeq: {{{1}}} | Dept Y | Jones }} {{ #ifeq: {{{1}}} | Dept Z | Davis }} etc. Template PhoneNumbers could have {{ #ifeq: {{{1}}} | Smith | (888) 555-1234 }} {{ #ifeq: {{{1}}} | Jones | (888) 555-4321 }} {{ #ifeq: {{{1}}} | Davis | (888) 555-1221 }} etc. Then just include that in the outer template: The head of {{{dept}}} is {{ DepartmentHeads|{{{dept}}} }} They can be contacted at {{ PhoneNumbers|{{ DepartmentHeads|{{{dept}}} }} }} This is a tedious way to create templates as a quasi-database, but if the data is small in quantity and fairly static over time, it works and avoids building an extension. Mike