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The Gadget Doctor

24 May 2008 24 May '08

5:10 p.m.

I'm having a bit of a fight with the <onlyinclude> <includeonly> and <noinclude> tags and transclusion. I would like to have a template that passes a category on once only: Page A -> Page B -> Template Page A transcludes Page B Page B transcludes Template I would like a category to be applied to Page B (from the template) but not to Template or Page A. I can apply the category to Page B and not Template with the following on the template: <includeonly>[[Category:Web Citation]]</includeonly> But that then gets passed on to Page A if I transclude Page B. I'm sure there's a way, I'm just stumped! GadgetDoctor

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Platonides

24 May 24 May

9:16 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Putting Categories in a Template... how to make them get transcluded only once

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Jim Hu

9:54 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Putting Categories in a Template... how to make them get transcluded only once

I'm wondering how various nestings of noinclude, includeonly, and nowiki might behave. Not well, I'm guessing... On May 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Platonides wrote:

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The Gadget Doctor worte:

I don't think there's a way only with <onlyinclude> & Co. The easiest would be passing from page B a parameter to the template which defines if the categories shall appear or not. Then conditionally define it. So it could be somehting as ugly as: {{MyTemplate|addcategory={{#if:<includeonly>1</includeonly>|no| yes}} }} _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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The Gadget Doctor

25 May 25 May

1:35 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Putting Categories in a Template... how to make them get transcluded only once

No, there doesn't seem much life in nesting <include> directives. At the moment I'm working on a fairly complex system of comparing the calling page name to some of the items in the template. If these two things match, then I know the template is being called in such a way that it is correct to tag that page. I'm actually creating the pages solely to call the template once. I than transclude those pages across the site. This gives me some rather interesting sorting when used with Semantic MediaWiki and DPL2. The problem I've run into is if there is any sort of punctuation or special characters in the page name ' " etc then my #ifeq comparison fails. I'm not sure exactly why but I can think of many reasons this happens. Gadgetdoctor On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> wrote:

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I'm wondering how various nestings of noinclude, includeonly, and nowiki might behave. Not well, I'm guessing... On May 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Platonides wrote:

The Gadget Doctor worte:

===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Jim Hu

1:49 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Putting Categories in a Template... how to make them get transcluded only once

You may be able to do better just by making some kind of extension to add the <noinclude> around the category tags in the desired B pages. JH On May 24, 2008, at 8:35 PM, The Gadget Doctor wrote:

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I'm wondering how various nestings of noinclude, includeonly, and nowiki might behave. Not well, I'm guessing... On May 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Platonides wrote:

The Gadget Doctor worte:

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===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

The Gadget Doctor

2:06 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Putting Categories in a Template... how to make them get transcluded only once

I've never written an extensions but I think now might be the time to look into it! GD On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> wrote:

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You may be able to do better just by making some kind of extension to add the <noinclude> around the category tags in the desired B pages. JH On May 24, 2008, at 8:35 PM, The Gadget Doctor wrote:

I'm wondering how various nestings of noinclude, includeonly, and nowiki might behave. Not well, I'm guessing... On May 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Platonides wrote:

The Gadget Doctor worte: > I'm having a bit of a fight with the <onlyinclude> <includeonly> > and > <noinclude> tags and transclusion. > > I would like to have a template that passes a category on once > only: > > Page A -> Page B -> Template > > Page A transcludes Page B > Page B transcludes Template > > I would like a category to be applied to Page B (from the template) > but not to Template or Page A. > > I can apply the category to Page B and not Template with the > following > on the template: > > <includeonly>[[Category:Web Citation]]</includeonly> > > But that then gets passed on to Page A if I transclude Page B. > > I'm sure there's a way, I'm just stumped! > > GadgetDoctor I don't think there's a way only with <onlyinclude> & Co. The easiest would be passing from page B a parameter to the template which defines if the categories shall appear or not. Then conditionally define it. So it could be somehting as ugly as: {{MyTemplate|addcategory={{#if:<includeonly>1</includeonly>|no| yes}} }} _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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The Gadget Doctor

4:10 a.m.

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OK the problem boils down to the apostrophe! For some reason, if I create a new page in my wiki by following the following link on some page: [[For some reason it's not good to have an apostrophe]] And then on that new page I put the following: {{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | For some reason it's not good to have an apostrophe | MATCH | NOT }} {{urlencode:{{PAGENAME}}}} {{urlencode:For some reason it's not good to have an apostrophe}} I get the following: NOT For+some+reason+it%26%2339%3Bs+not+good+to+have+an+apostrophe For+some+reason+it%27s+not+good+to+have+an+apostrophe What's up with my apostrophe's? I'm on a Mac working in both Firefox and Safari. And more to the point... any easy fix? I just want to be able to compare the page title with a known string (from which I generated the link that created the page) and get a YES, even if there is an apostrophe somewhere in the title! GD On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> wrote:

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You may be able to do better just by making some kind of extension to add the <noinclude> around the category tags in the desired B pages. JH On May 24, 2008, at 8:35 PM, The Gadget Doctor wrote:

I'm wondering how various nestings of noinclude, includeonly, and nowiki might behave. Not well, I'm guessing... On May 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Platonides wrote:

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