{{Convert}} on Wikipedia isn't one single fancy template, it is actually several hundred. I ran Special:Export and told it to include all the sub template, and I got back a file with 394 pages, a few of them might be documentation, but you get the idea. I'd love to see this sort of functionality be put into MediaWiki somewhere, rather than crazy template hacking.
-Jon
PS. We tried to steal {{Convert}} on Wikipedia to use on Wikinews... we eventually gave up and stuck to the handful of separate templates we had before.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 22:05, Jona Christopher Sahnwaldt < jcsahnwaldt@gmail.com> wrote:
Why not just use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Convert ?
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 06:04, Sylvain Leroux sylvain@chicoree.fr wrote:
Hi,
There is an issue concerning unit conversions in wikitext: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235
This one doesn't deserved any attention since a long time. The original proposition was about converting units "on the fly" regarding user
preferences.
I don't know if it is feasible and/or desirable.
I propose to work on something less ambitious: adding a parser function
to
provide conversion - maybe in ParserFunction.
The idea would be something like: {{#unit: 1000 ft|m}} => <span title="304m (1000ft)">304m</span>
If I start working on this, will anyone accept to review the code?
Thanks in advance, Sylvain.
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