[Mediawiki-l] Advice on templating

Fri Feb 15 12:02:25 UTC 2008

Am Freitag, den 15.02.2008, 11:43 +0000 schrieb Rob Sharp:
> I thought I could 
> provide a layout framework via a template, give people the basic 
> information on how to include the template and they could then fill in 
> the included template.
> 
> Is there any way of setting up a template so that once included it's 
> contents are editable on the calling page?

Hi Rob,

an alternative to using long texts as parameters could be to write your
own parser extension and users could edit something like this:

<documentation>
  <summary>Blabla</summary>
  <body>Blablabla</body>
</documentation>

Your extension would then turn this into the desired markup.

~ Kilian