On Thursday 26 February 2004 21:11, Timwi wrote:
Nick Pisarro wrote:
Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@Wikipedia.org writes:
Additionally, I really don't think it should be possible to include any article in any other article. An article should be clearly marked as being "includable" (which it is by being in the MediaWiki namespace). I don't know if it is currently possible to place a {{msg:}} inside a page on the MediaWiki namespace, but I believe that should be disallowed to prevent circular references (infinite recursion).
If you did implement this feature, as you build up the page you *would* have to watch for circular references. You could do this by stacking the fully qualified names of what your in the middle of including and make sure the new file isn't already on the stack.
It would still be possible to create a ridiculously long chain.
Or you could do something similar to redirects, allow only one level of inclusion.