[Mediawiki-l] Templates

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Tue Apr 19 14:31:37 UTC 2005


Giovanni (gputignano at tiscali.it) [050419 22:50]:

> Is it possible to pass as argument to a template another template? For example I need to store in a template the url of a image and then pass this template to another template. So when I change the image url inside the first template automatically I change the image in all the other templates.
> Can I?


Yes, though it affects caching. The issues are discussed at:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_using_meta-templates


- d.





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