Re: [Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel Friesen
Hmmm... reminds me of http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Placeholder ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Magnus Manske wrote: ... * It will replace all other templates with strings like ##TEMPLATEnumber:name##, e.g., ##TEMPLATE1:Infobox VG## ... Cheers,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: We (the usability team) do intend to get 'content folding' (folding template calls and tables into stubs that can be expanded at will) done in the Citron (third) release. *falls to the ground and starts kissing your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-27 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/9/27 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: *falls to the ground and starts kissing your feet* *refers praise to other people; I'm mostly just a code monkey there* Awesome. Timeframe? Screenshots? Nothing just yet. Right now we're focusing on getting the Babaco release deployed shortly. When

[Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-25 Thread Magnus Manske
IMHO the question, in this case, is not how to build the perfect wikitext grammar/parser, but how to ease editing of wikitext through editor enhancements. For that, it seems sufficient to cover the vast majority of cases instead of writing a perfect solution, as long as it falls back to ugly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template editing

2009-09-25 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/9/25 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com: As to the issue of getting possible template variable names: Why not * load the wikitext of the template in the background * remove all nowiki, noinclude, etc * get everything that looks like {{{NAME| or {{{NAME}}} * remove known magic