[OSM-talk] proposal templates

Robin Paulson robin.paulson at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 21:48:31 GMT 2008


On 11/01/2008, Tony Bowden <tony at tmtm.com> wrote:
> Unless I'm misunderstanding what we need here, Mediawiki Templates
> aren't quite what we want: we want something more akin to Templates in
> Word, where you 'clone' the template and then edit it to what you want.
> Mediawiki templates require passing in arguments to the call to them,
> which isn't really suitable for large clumps of text.
>
> We might be better installing one of these:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CreateArticle
>
> These would allow us to create a little 'form' that people can type into
> when proposing a feature, that will then create the relevant wiki page.

as you can see, i'm not a mediawiki guru....i probably got the
terminology wrong, yes i was using templates in it's more generic
meaning.

i guess that means contacting the wiki admins to get them installed?




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