"Magnus Manske" <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote
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On 9/24/07, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
In its current implementation, yes. I could move the
link name to a
"name=" tag attribute.
That sounds like a good idea.
OK, will do.
Remember,
this is not intended for taxoboxes and the like. It is for
ISBN/ISSN/geohack etc. where you have a few short parameter values,
but rather large output generated from these.
What it's intended for is, of course, not what users are likely to use
it for . . .
Fully automated fancruft pages! Yay! ;-)
Both of these points seem unnecessarily limiting! What if the template has
a name parameter? What if the input needs to be on more than one line? I
see no reason not to build with this flexibility now - it will only end up
being a future request if not, and a lot harder to fix if we have hacked
together a clumsy syntax that we have to stick to for backward
compatability.
What about the suggestion I made yesterday, about using the standard link
syntax, potentially with an extra symbol at the beginning? So {{Test}}
means transclude, [[Template:Test]] means link to and [[#Test]] (or
[[#Template:Test]] if you like) means link to a special page, showing the
rendered template.
Of course, I've now realised that # is not a suitable character for this, as
although it is invalid in page names, it is valid in links as an in-page
link, so maybe another character would need to be used (how about question
mark?) Or perhaps use [[Test#]] instead?
(See my previous post for more details about my suggestion).
This idea is much more concise than <templatelink>Test</templatelink> which
is what is currently proposed...
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)