On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:34:36 +0200, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: > A relation isn't just a set of tags. It requires certain members and > roles (which aren't tags). Thus, a relation isn't, as the category name > would suggest, a "tag supported by X" (it's a relation supported by X), > whereas the relation's type=xyz tag would indeed be a "tag supported by > X". But that's not a very relevant issue.
I have not seen any valir relation without a type -tag yet. After all, you need to know in what way (and not just in what role) they are related. > Well, I'm no MediaWiki expert either, so I'm not sure about the best way > of creating that sort of template. > > Something like Babel (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Babel) > templates would probably be easy, but I've got no idea what the > performance effects of something like that would be. I've never seen that {{#if:{{{1|}}}|XXX}} -construct. Is that a mediawiki-plugin? Marcus > > Anyway, I'd definitely like a statement from someone with MediaWiki > experience before creating some widely-used template. Of course, > categories are the simpler solution and could theoretically be exchanged > with something else by a bot if we encounter problems. > > Tobias Knerr > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
