Re: MediaWiki Templates

[David Hedlund]

On 2022-02-05 12:55, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
> Em 24/01/2022 23:28, David Hedlund escreveu:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reply_to
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ping
>> […]
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Also
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:See_also
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:For
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Confused
> Both seem to use Lua, which I would like to avoid using so as not to add
> another layer of complexity for the Directory.

Thanks for your feedback Adonay. However, I requested the back-end admin of 
another MediaWiki based project that I moderate to import these templates and 
it went fine, and he has not complained about extra maintainance.

>
> I very much prefer to manually mention people when that is appropriate
> or reaching the people interested through email, IRC, or XMPP (because
> the email server I have an account on sometimes fails to deliver the
> message, or the destination server ignores it).
>
> As an addendum, I also wouldn't be OK if we were to do something with
> ICalendar or feed SMW result formats. Because, in both cases, all will
> be limited to people subscribed to calendar or feed, and I also don't
> see a way to limit these notifications (either calendar or feed) only to
> people who are in the project team (because anyone could subscribe or
> figure out the URL to do that).
>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ref
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Merge_to
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Merge_from
> These I did not research much yet.
>