https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50182
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #7 from [email protected] --- I'm seeing a few comments that imply that nested templates are somehow the result of a poorly thought out design: I take issue with that. Take {{BillboardURLbyName}}, for example: it's got a very simple job: give it the name of a musical artist, and it will return the URL to the Billboard page for that artist's charts or biography. Billboard loves to redesign its site periodically and builds the URL based on six digit numbers, so we really don't want URL hardcoding going on. It would be a very poor design if we required every template that could accept a URL to understand how to translate an artist name into a URL. It's much better to do it the way we do: pass {{BillboardURLbyName|artist name}} as an argument to templates that require URLs, and let each template do its own job. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
