Hi I have been using MediaWiki for a couple of years now and have recently gone more in depth with it for various projects. One of them is gamewiki.net and there I am currently having a problem. http://gamewiki.net/Template:Infobox_Game This little template is giving me a few headaches and I hope some experienced people can give me a few hints and pointers, as I have searched and read everything I could find on templates and advanced templates and so far have not found a solution for this little problem of mine. Right now, I have a field "platform" that describes if the game is avaialbe on windows only, on linux, or on Xbox, or on multiple ones. To auto include categories etc, I chose to create templates like {{Platform Xbox}} and {{Platform Windows}}. I could make that into a smaller one, like {{Platform|Windows}} and then have a switch in the platform template, but that is still not very elegant. What I wanted to achieve is something like calling the Infobox template with "platform = Windows, Linux, Xbox" and then extract from that what I need, maybe translate it internally into a {{Platform|Windows}} template. The goal is to make it easy to use to users. The same trouble I face with developers and publishers. Sometimes a game has more than one developer (be it for a porting project or simply cooperation). I could just make "developer1 = company A" and "developer2 = company B" but that is again a pretty ugly solution which would be a lot cleaner if the way mentioned above could be used somehow. That said, the problems compound here in this box. For one, there are different release dates for different platforms. Say Assassins Creed was released last year for the consoles and this year for Windows. Worse even, the games then get released a few days, or even months apart for different regions. Anyone has an idea how I could handle that gracefully? I don't shy away from extensions or even making my own, but I am currently at a loss how I should attack this problem. Thanks a lot in advance to anyone giving some insight into this problem. Greetings, Chris _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Hi Jim Thanks for the speedy answer. I am already using parserfunctions extension and stumbled across the string functions once (although that one did not have what I needed). So far I did not see the loop functions, but that would actually fit all together the profile very well. And if it doesn't fit perfect, I could make it work with the code available, I'd think. If I get this working I will post back so anyone else running into this can find the solution easy. My organizational problems still remain though. Any input will be very welcome. Greetings, Chris On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Jim R. Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > You'll probably want to look into the ParserFunctions, StringFunctions > and LoopFunctions extensions. These add more looping/parsing > capabilities to the parser for doing those kinds of complex > operations. > > -- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw) > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Chris Riesen <chris.riesen(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> Hi >> >> I have been using MediaWiki for a couple of years now and have recently >> gone >> more in depth with it for various projects. One of them is gamewiki.net >> and >> there I am currently having a problem. >> >> http://gamewiki.net/Template:Infobox_Game >> >> This little template is giving me a few headaches and I hope some >> experienced people can give me a few hints and pointers, as I have >> searched >> and read everything I could find on templates and advanced templates and >> so >> far have not found a solution for this little problem of mine. >> >> Right now, I have a field "platform" that describes if the game is >> avaialbe >> on windows only, on linux, or on Xbox, or on multiple ones. To auto >> include >> categories etc, I chose to create templates like {{Platform Xbox}} and >> {{Platform Windows}}. I could make that into a smaller one, like >> {{Platform|Windows}} and then have a switch in the platform template, >> but >> that is still not very elegant. What I wanted to achieve is something >> like >> calling the Infobox template with "platform = Windows, Linux, Xbox" and >> then >> extract from that what I need, maybe translate it internally into a >> {{Platform|Windows}} template. The goal is to make it easy to use to >> users. >> >> The same trouble I face with developers and publishers. Sometimes a game >> has >> more than one developer (be it for a porting project or simply >> cooperation). >> I could just make "developer1 = company A" and "developer2 = company B" >> but >> that is again a pretty ugly solution which would be a lot cleaner if the >> way >> mentioned above could be used somehow. >> >> That said, the problems compound here in this box. For one, there are >> different release dates for different platforms. Say Assassins Creed was >> released last year for the consoles and this year for Windows. Worse >> even, >> the games then get released a few days, or even months apart for >> different >> regions. Anyone has an idea how I could handle that gracefully? >> >> I don't shy away from extensions or even making my own, but I am >> currently >> at a loss how I should attack this problem. >> >> Thanks a lot in advance to anyone giving some insight into this problem. >> >> Greetings, >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >