I have some interest in adding metadata to templates with some new
template editing features I'm hoping to work on (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jesse_Groppi/GSOC_2010 ). I see what
you're saying about the extra queries involved, and since I would like
to add even more, I'm curious to hear how much trouble these few hundred
extra queries would cause the average user?
On 03/04/2010 15:50, Tisza Gergő wrote:
> Roan Kattouw<roan.kattouw<at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> We've also been thinking about integrating these features with
>> template metadata. We were mostly thinking about things like parameter
>> types and descriptions, but collapsibility could be another attribute
>> of a template.
>>
> Ideally it should be a per-parameter attribute; for example, {{citation
> needed|text=2+2=5|from=January 2009}} should be displayed as [citation
> needed]2+2=5] for maximum readability.
>
> The problem with the metadata approach is that while usually you can get away
> with loading it in the background when the user clicks on the collapsed icon,
> collapsibility metadata must be available for all templates as soon as the
> page
> is loaded. That would mean dozens, sometimes hundreds of extra queries for a
> single edit screen, or some sort of template metadata cache.
>
>
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