[Commons-l] Template:Flickr

[Florian Straub]

"Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote on Friday, August 24, 2007 7:10
PM:


> On 8/24/07, Florian Straub <flominator at gmx.net> wrote:
>> I just changed http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Flickr to now
>> use
>> {{information}}.
>
> A good step.
>
>> Maybe that would give us the change to occasionally "subst" it in order
>> to
>> receive a "normal" description page:
>
> This is the direction I'd like to go.
>
>> Otherwise machine reading could rescursively read the templates and get
>> the
>> information from the fields as well.
>
> No it can't. ... not reasonably. The only way to reliably recurse in
> anything external is to have a copy of all the templates, and to
> implement a full mediaiki parser. The only truly complete parser is
> the (rather slow) one in MediaWiki. ...
>
> You can try to handle the cases in a third party parser, but you'll
> always be chasing your tail: People constantly change our markup and
> templates ... and the only standard they apply is how it looks in
> mediawiki. :(

Then it should be request for deletion and "subst"-ing {{flickr}} and some
{{if}}s.

Regards,

Flo