[Mediawiki-l] Advice on templating

[Dan Thomas]

Rob -- have you considered Semantic Forms extension for managing
structured content?  Dan

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Rob Sharp <rob at boringbutgood.com> wrote:
> Morning all,
>
>  I'm seeking a little advice on the use of Templates.
>
>  I'm setting up an internal wiki at my company , the purpose of which
>  is to allow various people to document our routines and program workflows.
>
>  I'd like to standardise the layout of this documentation with regards
>  to the basic information that needs entering. 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? Substitution achieves this,
>  but then doesn't actually reflect that the page is using the template
>  and so doesn't pick up any further changes to that template.
>
>  I could use parameters in the template, but there could be a lot of
>  information and this might be a bit cumbersome.
>
>  Do I have any other options for achieving this?
>
>  Please let me know if what I'm asking for isn't clear.
>
>  Rob
>
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