On 9/12/07, Mark Clements gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
"Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote in message news:a4359dff0709111513j330263eag6517c1b7a518cecd@mail.gmail.com...
Special pages CAN read extra parameters. However, i'd advise the format Special:Serialsource/12345678 instead, as it can use internal wikilinks.
I was trying to think of a way to do it without creating a new special page. It's rather a specific thing to get it's own special page, a more general feature would be better.
See my other post for a general solution. It adds a new special page, but only one that can be used for any similar situation, and which could possibly replace Special:Booksource.
How about: <newpagetemplate title="ISSN 12345">some_template|12345</newpagetemplate>
which links to a special page with the contents (dynamically generated) {{some_template|12345}}
In other words, a special page that will dynamically run a template with parameters. That would allow to use all the nice template magick we are used to, and be general enough to cover many cases.
Maybe we could even get rid of geohack! (just dreaming...)
Magnus