On 1/19/07, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
Ligulem wrote:
On 19.01.2007 10:27, Andrew Garrett wrote:
If you want something implemented in a pure programming language (PHP is debatable in that regard), speak to developers, we will implement it in PHP as part of MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a piece of software, not an IDE.
Would you move http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book into MediaWiki then?
Taking this seriously, instead of as bait, if you are serious about this, please post a bugzilla request, instead of hounding individual developers.
You said "speak to developers", not fill out a bugzilla request. Now, if one of us *does* put in a bugzilla request, will it get done?
Unfortunately, the MediaWiki PHP code isn't as easy to update as templates are. Of course, resolving this without causing major security headaches is/would be an insanely difficult thing to do.
That said, I think that a basic parameterised thing like that needn't be reimplemented; although it would be perhaps helpful in performance terms.
If it were implemented in PHP, could then a lookup be done so one would only need to give the ISBN and page number, and the rest would be added automagically?