"Gregory Maxwell" gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote on Friday, August 24, 2007 7:10 PM:
On 8/24/07, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
I just changed http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Flickr to now use {{information}}.
A good step.
Maybe that would give us the change to occasionally "subst" it in order to receive a "normal" description page:
This is the direction I'd like to go.
Otherwise machine reading could rescursively read the templates and get the information from the fields as well.
No it can't. ... not reasonably. The only way to reliably recurse in anything external is to have a copy of all the templates, and to implement a full mediaiki parser. The only truly complete parser is the (rather slow) one in MediaWiki. ...
You can try to handle the cases in a third party parser, but you'll always be chasing your tail: People constantly change our markup and templates ... and the only standard they apply is how it looks in mediawiki. :(
Then it should be request for deletion and "subst"-ing {{flickr}} and some {{if}}s.
Regards,
Flo