That actually looks like a great idea for what I'd like to do, since I'm still
trying to figure out Semantic Forms, and this looks like a good alternative for stock
MediaWiki.
As for that template, it's pretty much what I had in mind for this story generator
idea, so thank you for the help, Matma.
However, I'd wondering if I could implement the template in the below manner somehow:
I'd like to provide a page with the instruction on how to use the
silly story generator, then an input box (I have the InputBox extension)
when the template can be added, and the result can be shown on another
page or window.
Either that, or transcluded into a section below the Inputbox which can be cleared off and
purged for reuse.
I'm
not averse to installing any extensions if I have to to make this work
(I assume I'd probably need the Labeled Section Transclusion Extension
or something similar for the above idea)
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:57:06 +0100
From: matma.rex(a)gmail.com
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Was wondering if I could make a "story generator" in
MediaWiki?
The best you could do with vanilla MW is to create a template with the story text, and
call the template with appropriate variables. E.g.:
Template:Story:
One day while I was {{{1}}} in the {{{2}}} a {{{3}}} fell through the roof.
Any page:
{{story|sleeping|kitchen|dog}}
For something more user-friendly, you could probably use the Semantic MediaWiki
extension; I'm not sure if there's anything more specific that could let you
achieve this.
--
Matma Rex
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