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[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 12/19/06, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/18/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Assuming that a {{subst:}} works recursively and automatically, which
> > I really don't know...  My MediaWiki installation is outside my
> > immediate hands-on test radius unfortunately.
> >
>
> Temporary substing is something to explore. But it would have its own
> problems, I think -- meta templates aren't substed when you subst the main
> template, from my experience. Substing all the infoboxes and other templates
> on a page can make it pretty ugly, too... unless we were thinking about
> copying all the templates to temporary subpages?

If you just want to recursively transclude all templates, there is a
page for that, [[Special:Expand templates]]. This will transform all
template code into static wikicode (including dynamic stuff like
{{#if}}s and dates and whatnot). It tends to produce a heck of a lot
of wikicode though.

> An adminbot is starting to sound a bit more tempting, from my end. Any bot
> would be able to find and protect TFA, and absolutely everything transcluded
> onto it, pretty easily, I think. Though I don't imagine that'll be an easy
> sell. Might be easier to see if we can get pgkbot to report all edits to
> that set of pages in the IRC counter-vandalism channels.
>
> Still just brainstorming, here.
> -Luna
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