On 18/04/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, it might be interesting even to have a way of including *part* of another page, specified with the #anchor notation. Then at the very least you could have code that looked like this:
==Topic== {{otheruser:Topic}} :reply 1 :::reply 3
To continue to reply to myself, some other uses this kind of thing would have:
Reporting copyvios: simply place the {{copyvio}} template on the page, and it would add it to the list of copyvios automatically Good article nominees: add the name of the page to the [[WP:GAN]] and it would add {{GAnominee}} to the page itself ...and lots of similar ideas: {{prod}}, vandal templates (eg, {{test4}} could automatically add text to [[WP:AN/I]]), ...
All these situations would basically reduce the amount of work involved in fairly menial tasks, by requiring you to only edit one page instead of two. In many of them, a similar effect could be achieved by expanding either the category or "what links here" functionality to allow text comments. For example, perhaps you could somehow link to another user's page with the text "I have replied [[user:foo|here]]", with that link being self-destroying. Or, if you could add a page to a copyright violation category with a little bit more information, then the need to manually report the copyvio to [[WP:copyvio]] is eliminated.
Opinions welcome, even if they're "no, it's useless", "no, it's a bad idea", or "no, it can't be done". :)
Steve