https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2700
--- Comment #56 from Rich Farmbrough <[email protected]> 2011-07-17 07:17:38 UTC --- That's great, but subst'ing {{Cite web}} (etc.) would be a disaster. Simply for "Subst:" this is a basic problem which people have had to code round in Javascript and bot code. Leaving this bug unassigned means increasing amounts of resource are used to code for these special cases (which, of course rely on the underlying templates (where appropriate) not changing) as more tools are developed to work on Wikitext. For example SmackBot (now Helpful Pixe Bot) used to use "Subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME" to date tags. Mainly because of this bug I had to write code to regenerate the XML for AWB to use the explicit monthname, a side effect being that all changes to the XML had to be back-ported to the component model. Moreover if I didn't regenerate the XML the wrong month was used. Now AWB is no longer used for this I use the current system ides of the GMT month, which is pretty good, but still creates an unneeded dependency on my system clock. Similarly there are probably workarounds for the other extensions which are not processed but the idea of having a mark-up language that works one way on parts of the page and another on other parts, except through design, is a real bad one. Although it doesn't currently cause _me_ problems - I'd like to see this prioritized. -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
