User talk:Stelio/ParserFunctions

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To: Triumph and Icy

Would you consider adding the ParserFunctions extension to this wiki? This would add more flexibility and power to the way that templates can be used. Specifically, I have some ideas about useful ways to parameterise repeated sections through the use of templates that should improve the consistency of wiki pages.

For a couple of examples of more complex templates I have written use the ParserFunctions, see:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stelio/Roman
• http://stelio.net/stiki/Template:LoneWolf

(View the wiki source code for these pages to see how they work.)

ParserFunctions is a stable and well-established extension, safe enough that it is used on Wikipedia itself. :-)

If you are amenable, but unsure of how to add an extension, I can guide you through the (very simple) process since I'm a wiki administrator elsewhere myself.

Thanks, -Stelio 21:44, 14 March 2009 (CDT)

Neither Triumph nor I has direct access to the /wiki/ files. Also, I have been told that it is not viable to upgrade the wiki backend (1.6) due to compatibility with the hooks for vbulletin. The said extension requires 1.7. Entropy has access to the files - if you can assist in improving the version/extensions, then that's great, because as the templates are now, one can't employ any conditionals. Icy 23:12, 14 March 2009 (CDT)