[Mediawiki-l] Re: Page Templates
Jamie Bliss
astronouth7303 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 23:13:28 UTC 2005
Chris McIntosh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to define a standard page to use for documenation on my wiki.
> It should look something like
>
> Header:
> ...
> Business Case:
> ...
> Notes and Progress:
> ...
> etc
>
> I tried to set this up first with a wiki template.
> {{ProjectTemplate|Blah|blah|blah}} However it doesn't seem to be able to
> give me the flexibility to create different section of markup and possible
> change their position at a later time.
>
> I am thinking of something like an html page where I define different
> sections and then can define a stylesheet at a later time.
>
> Is there anything like this in Mediawiki?
What you need to do is figure out general formats (eg, suggested
headings) and specific formats (infoboxes). The latter can go into
templates; the former embedded in each page. (You may want to look at
Wikipedia's taxonomy boxes for an idea how to be flexible.)
I wrote an extension once for FIRSTwiki that defined a format action
that tried to match the title to a series of regexps, then loaded a
template's content into that page if it matched. I can release it as GPL
if you would like to see it.
-- Jamie
-------------------------------------------------------------------
http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/
Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail!
Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB.
More information about the MediaWiki-l
mailing list