On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I also thought there was a template for lists of rivers, but the template at the bottom of that page is generated by a template parameter from Template:Africa topic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Africa_topic) so there is no way to actually link to the template as it displays in the article. Which is more than a bit annoying.
Yeah, that caught me by surprise, too. It's a nice way of sort of instantly generating hundreds of templates. And there's nothing stopping someone making {{List of rivers of Africa}} with the content {{Africa topic|List of rivers of}}.
Is it worth asking the developers for the ability to link to a template with parameters? If nothing else it might be useful for previewing etc.
Steve