https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26786
--- Comment #8 from Happy-melon <happy.melon.w...@gmail.com> 2011-01-23 22:06:29 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > One reason why the citation templates can not be implemented in PHP is that > citation style heavily depends on language/project. Russian Wikipedia may have > a very different citation style than English one. Similar the citation style > in > Wikiquote may be very different from Wikipedia. It also would be unreasonable > to install several extensions - one for each language/project. That's essentially what I said. A PHP implementation wouldn't be doing anything very much different to what the wikitext is doing; it probably wouldn't even do it very much more efficiently. A function which is essentially take-a-load-of-text-strings-entered-into-wikitext-and-display-them-in-a-special-way is not a good candidate for implementation in PHP rather than wikitext. In order to achieve anything meaningful, you have to change the *nature* of the content, and turn it into semantic data. > Convert template is... This belongs on bug 235. (In reply to comment #7) > There isn't anything in what you describe that prevents this functionality > from > being implemented in PHP. It might require a separate interface (using, e.g., > a > separate Special page) or more customizability (using, e.g., $first_name > variables in MediaWiki messages), but it certainly isn't impossible. Indeed. It's more that it's not a nice simple quick fix; this would probably be as big a project as something like ResourceLoader, maybe even as big as AbuseFilter. Not something to be thrown together in an afternoon... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
