Harvey Hahn wrote:
> The advantage of the current approach is that JSoftware doesn't have to
> maintain its own flag image database when someone else is already doing
> that, thank you, and we can just depend on that reputable source for
> that piece of the puzzle.
That wouldn't change. An interwiki is just a substitution template. That
means that if the raw-text source of the page reads:
{{templatename:parameters}}
then in the rendered HTML (provided to the browser), the wiki would output
the template named templatename with the parameters substituted.
In this case, the template would be named "flag" and would look something
like http://flag.wikispaces.com/file/view/%s.png (I don't know the exact
syntax), so typing {{flag:us}} in the raw text of the page would result
in the rendered HTML reading http://flag.wikispaces.com/file/view/us.png
.
> Why would anyone type an entry from scratch?
The deterrent isn't having to write a new entry from scratch. It's going
to edit the page and seeing a dense blob of text and saying "that looks
difficulat and important -- I'm not touching that". The people deterred
would be those unfamiliar with wikis and wiki syntax.
In any case, the the effort involved is really only adding one line to
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/InterWiki . But only a WikiGnome can do
that.
-Dan
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