On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:00:39 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
Some other issues that also occur to me:
- does template transclusion work on an alias? If not, why not? - does it
work in other namespaces? Which namespace does the alias apply in? Does this mean that [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]] cannot have a line like #ALIASES WP:NOT ? If aliases are applied in the main namespace, how do we stop people using them in user pages etc?
Suggestions welcome.
Steve
I'd suggest that it not work on transclusion. I don't see much benefit to it.
Actually, if it did work with transclusion, then you'd probably need the aliases list to load the dumps. Otherwise, you couldn't find the templates if you don't have that list to resolve them with; since you can't generate the complete list unless have the templates to parse them from!
I think it would be ideal if this could be made to work on the search/go form, without affecting things like links & transclusion, which would potentially make the data so much harder to work with. -Steve