Alex Brollo, 14/12/2010 09:10:
I can't "open a bug" (bugzilla is very confusing for me) and I don't know how to browse old proposals/requests, so I feel better to post here two ideas, just to let you revise them and - if you like - to go on into bugzilla.
- I'd like to have a {{nbsp:string}} function, to replace all spaces
with html entities into string. It would very useful to format table cell content where spaces must be avoided, while saving the original string.
There's a class for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nowrap
- I'd like to generalize {{#titleparts:string}} transforming it into a
general str.split() function something like {{split:string|char}} where string is the string to split, and char is the splitting character). I use a lot #titleparts as a "string-splitter", and I can manage difficult issues with ease (i.e.: how to pass multiple values into a single parameter of a template) but sometimes I'd like to use a character different from / (i.e. splitting a list of page/subpage names).
This should be http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions , which will never be implemented in Wikimedia projects.
Nemo