Steve Bennett <stevage@...> writes:
Hi all, A half-serious feature request. Would it be possible to extend Wikimedia to allow templates that have effects in other namespaces? The most obvious application would be for adding text to another user's talk page without actually having to edit it. It would certainly make talk discussions easier than the current situation...
Alfred writes on Bertie's talk page: Hello, your latest addition sucks
Bertie replies on her talk page: {{usertalk|Alfred|No it doesn't. You're mean.}}
This template makes the text appear on the talk page, but also somehow makes an elegant link to the discussion appear on Alfred's talk page.
There may be other ways of solving this particularly awkward situation, in which either you have to monitor other users' talk pages, copy the entire conversation back and forth, or create two separate conversation halves at different locations.
Steve
I think the other namespaces can be included as a template, for example to include a Wikipedia namespace page, use {{Wikipedia:includepagename}}, and for the main namespace, use {{:includepagename}}. The only thing that using {{}} without any namespace will point to Template namespace in default.
But using this method on the main namespace, user talk namespace, it will include the whole discussion onto the page that used.
regards Man