Re: [Mediawiki-l] Using multiple parameters on one template parameter

Hi I have been using MediaWiki for a couple of years now and have recently gone more in depth with it for various projects. One of them is gamewiki.net and there I am currently having a problem. http://gamewiki.net/Template:Infobox_Game This little template is giving me a few headaches and I hope some experienced people can give me a few hints and pointers, as I have searched and read everything I could find on templates and advanced templates and so far have not found a solution for this little problem of mine. Right now, I have a field "platform" that describes if the game is avaialbe on windows only, on linux, or on Xbox, or on multiple ones. To auto include categories etc, I chose to create templates like {{Platform Xbox}} and {{Platform Windows}}. I could make that into a smaller one, like {{Platform|Windows}} and then have a switch in the platform template, but that is still not very elegant. What I wanted to achieve is something like calling the Infobox template with "platform = Windows, Linux, Xbox" and then extract from that what I need, maybe translate it internally into a {{Platform|Windows}} template. The goal is to make it easy to use to users. The same trouble I face with developers and publishers. Sometimes a game has more than one developer (be it for a porting project or simply cooperation). I could just make "developer1 = company A" and "developer2 = company B" but that is again a pretty ugly solution which would be a lot cleaner if the way mentioned above could be used somehow. That said, the problems compound here in this box. For one, there are different release dates for different platforms. Say Assassins Creed was released last year for the consoles and this year for Windows. Worse even, the games then get released a few days, or even months apart for different regions. Anyone has an idea how I could handle that gracefully? I don't shy away from extensions or even making my own, but I am currently at a loss how I should attack this problem. Thanks a lot in advance to anyone giving some insight into this problem. Greetings, Chris _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l