On 23 May 2012 13:19, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > On 23.05.2012 13:14, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> If we assume that in practice #data-template is usually going to be wrapped >> into >> a template, what's the point of having it at all? Do you see any technical >> reasons for it? > > How else do you pass a complex object to a template and make its properties > show > up as template parameters?
I think I might have adressed that in my comment on the wiki. See there, but essentially I believe it is technically equally valid, and from a usability and community adoption standpoint far preferable, to simply support a syntax to adress properties of the complex object, and have the resolver of this syntax automatically pull the entire complex wikidata object (of which the property is a part) into a cache, so that subsequent calls to properties are returned from the cached object. I look forward to have this analyzed by Daniel. Obviously there are some extra things that need to be added, but also other things simply go away painlessly... Can you write a advantage/disadvantage comparison on the wiki, Daniel, to be commented upon? Gregor _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
