On 20/04/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
I've been thinking about introducing a tag which specifies that the source of the template should be displayed when you view the template page. There are a lot of meta-templates around where conversion to HTML with their default parameter values substituted in doesn't really tell you much about them. This would replace most uses for <includeonly>. Any comments on that?
Sounds great. Have a look at {{clearleft}} which I just "documented". Such a tag would be very useful for templates like that.
In any case, I would recommend documenting templates using <noinclude> sections, as long as the formatting is such that it is clear where the template stops and the documentation begins. I think that would be an improvement for usability, over using the talk page. The server overhead should be negligible (6ms per 100KB).
Cool. (this is the template section)<noinclude> ---- This is the documentation section.</noinclude>
Work for you?
Steve