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Maybe something like {{Special:ExpandTemplates}}.
X!
On Apr 19, 2009, at 2:29 PM [Apr 19, 2009 ], Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM, William Allen Simpson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's hard to document ("subst" doesn't seem to translate well or mean
>> anything to many folks), harder to remember, and hardest to type:
>>
>> {{subst:TEMPLATE|P1|P2|subst=subst:}}
>>
>> I'm often forgetting that final parameter, and conscientiously
>> have to edit
>> again. Others don't bother subst'ing at all!
>>
>> Is there a solution proposed anywhere already?
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2777
>
> It seems like this exists in an extension. I don't know whether the
> extension is good enough to enable on Wikimedia and/or just add to
> core; I haven't looked at it.
>
>> If not, here's my rough idea:
>>
>> Leading {{:: -- easy to type (already holding the shift key) --
>> same as
>> {{subst: -- only happens in edit parsing, no change to database.
>>
>> Leading {{## -- easy to type (already holding the shift key) --
>> obviously
>> must be different than {{:: -- used inside templates, tells the edit
>> parsing to "subst:" only subst'ing, otherwise ignored and treated as
>> concatenation. Same as C pre-processing operator.
>
> I think an actual keyword like "substall" is better. It's possible to
> Google the term to find documentation.
>
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