Yes, I heard about that one. Do you think it is more feasible to fix Extension:StringFunctions or to just make a new, specialized one? -Greg
On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Chad wrote:
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Greg L Greg_L_at_Wikipedia@comcast.netwrote:
Hi,
I'm new to this venue so please have patience with me. Jimbo suggested I contact Erik and Erik said I should post here.
Wikipedia authors of magic words and templates could really use a character-counting parser function. All the background information can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=26...
- Developer_support_for_parser_function
In a nutshell though, there is currently a template on en.Wikipedia called {{val}} that delimits numbers (places what appears to be thinspaces very three characters in scientific notation). It currently must use math-based techniques to parse the value and this results in rounding errors 5–10% of the time.
A character-counting parser function would accept interrogations such as "Are there more than four characters remaining in the string when counting right from the decimal point?" And "If so, feed me three more characters." Such a parser function would be very handy for many other purposes. With a good, bullet-proof parser function, our small army of template authors could produce some nice new tools.
I can be reached at Greg_L_at_Wikipedia@comcast.net
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There's http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions, but it had some issues (which caused a reversal of a merge with Parser Functions). IIRC, it was mentioned at the time that without some improvements, it wouldn't get enabled on WMF wikis.
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