Re: [Wikitech-l] Passing to {{ping}} a list of user stored in a template on Meta

2017-09-24 Thread bawolff
Why not just make a template containing {{ping|first user|second user|third user|...}} Your issue is almost certainly that the pipes aren't being tokenized as argument separators when they come from a transcluded template. (Its the same reason that {{!}} works in tables, except in reverse).

Re: [Wikitech-l] Passing to {{ping}} a list of user stored in a template on Meta

2017-09-24 Thread יגאל חיטרון
You do not check one by one. Just try what I suggested. Igal 2017-09-24 19:41 GMT+03:00 mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org>: > I didn't check one by one, but calling directly the ping template with all > the parameters will work while calling ping with a template which >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Passing to {{ping}} a list of user stored in a template on Meta

2017-09-24 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
I didn't check one by one, but calling directly the ping template with all the parameters will work while calling ping with a template which transclusion provide the same string, so "Amqui|Ariel1024|…" won't work. So, maybe it's the vertical bar "|" which is not interpreted as a parameter

Re: [Wikitech-l] Passing to {{ping}} a list of user stored in a template on Meta

2017-09-24 Thread יגאל חיטרון
Hi. Is there any chance for really forbidden characters? For example, did you try to check the input characters one by one? Or, maybe the last user name came with end of line, as part of template transclusion, and this will kill the mw.title.new/1 function. Igal (User:IKhitron) 2017-09-24 18:41

[Wikitech-l] Passing to {{ping}} a list of user stored in a template on Meta

2017-09-24 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
I'm trying to solve the problem exposed here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Psychoslave#Template:Participants (in French) In a nutshell, the goal is to be able to ping a group of user on meta. so ideally, you just type something like {{ping|my_group}} But as ping and the underlying

Re: [Wikitech-l] Previous mediawiki version test wiki

2017-09-24 Thread יגאל חיטרון
Hi, Moriel. Well, I see your point, but I still think it should be done. You spoke about do this, do that, and I told, in one of the paragraphs, about the case it isn't possible to reproduce the bug. So that what I suggest. Let's decide that my proposition isn't rejected yet, but just stalled.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Previous mediawiki version test wiki

2017-09-24 Thread Moriel Schottlender
I see your idea here, Igal, but I don't think it's necessary. Developers usually have pretty good tools to see where a bug came from (for example, we have a tool called "git bisect"[1] that allows us to analyze not just which release the bug was introduced in, but a specific commit to "blame" for