Quoting Jamie Bliss astronouth7303@gmail.com:

Paul Simmons wrote:

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Hi,

I am currently under a quandary. I have placed templates in categories,

however

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I wish for the pages to be displayed without the "Template:" prefix.

Any help would be appreciated.

How badly do you want to mess with the MW code?

Basically, it's easy if you change how categories are displayed. (Although I would still have someway to show that they are templates.)

Messing with code. Hmm. That depends if it is to be in a skin or the base functionality. I only want the category page when desplaying a template to strip the "Template:"

I am using templates for text reusability and simpler editing of small components in a larger page, and organisational flexability.

or am I going about this wrong and should just have a single page for each item instead of a template?

Regards

Paul

Quoting Jamie Bliss astronouth7303@gmail.com:

Paul Simmons wrote:

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Messing with code. Hmm. That depends if it is to be in a skin or the base functionality. I only want the category page when desplaying a template

to

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strip the "Template:"

Most likely CategoryPage.php.

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I am using templates for text reusability and simpler editing of small components in a larger page, and organisational flexability.

or am I going about this wrong and should just have a single page for each

item

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instead of a template?

Nope, sounds right. I encourage use of templates for this. (Disclaimer: I am not linked to WikiMedia in any manner. I just their mailing lists and software.)

-- Jamie

Thanks Jamie.

Quoting Paul Simmons psimmons@iinet.net.au:

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strip the "Template:"

Most likely CategoryPage.php.

Thanks...

I expect a regular expression substitution is required on the page title when it is displayed ... but I have no idea where to edit this.

my best guess is this line (well there is two of them)

$r .= "<li>{$articles[$index]}</li>";

Solution ... Well it works for me

in CategoryPage.php

At the end of the Function doCategoryMagic replace

wfProfileOut( $fname ); return $r;

With

wfProfileOut( $fname ); /* Added to try and format 'Template: xxx' to 'xxx' */ $r = preg_replace ("/>Template:([\w\d -]+)</i",">$1<", $r); return $r;

This will replace all displayed text "Template:XXXX" to "XXXX" and still leave the link to the template intact.

Thankyou Jamie for setting me on the right track

Regards

Paul

Quoting Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com:

On 25/11/05, Paul Simmons psimmons@iinet.net.au wrote:

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I am using templates for text reusability and simpler editing of small components in a larger page, and organisational flexability.

or am I going about this wrong and should just have a single page for each

item

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instead of a template?

I'm not suggesting what you're doing is "wrong", but did you realise that something doesn't need to be in the Template: namespace to be included as a template onto another page? You can actually include *any* page with the same syntax, by giving the full name, with the one exception of pages in the "main" namespace, which have no prefix - because {{Foo}} defaults to {{Template:Foo}}, you have to use {{:Foo}} with a leading colon.

It seems to me that this might remove the need for your hack, since you can just not have the pages called Template: anything in the first place!

Thanks Rowan I did not, I will give it a go and it will save me much future upgrade grief.