Extension:TemplateInfo

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TemplateInfo

Release status: experimental

Implementation  Tag
Description Defines a tag, <templateinfo>, that templates can use to provide an XML description of themselves
Author(s)  Yaron Koren <yaron57@gmail.com>
Last Version  0.1 (November 2009)
MediaWiki  1.16.* or greater
License GPL
Download See here
Example  Demo page for extension

check usage (experimental)

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[edit] Description

TemplateInfo is an extension to MediaWiki that defines a tag, <templateinfo>, that templates can use to provide an XML description of themselves. This extension was developed as part of the Wikipedia Usability Initiative, with the intention of using TemplateInfo in order to provide forms to edit template calls within pages. This extension, and the capability of editing template calls with forms, are still at an experimental stage, and liable to change. You can read more about the overall project here.

[edit] Code and download

You can download the code via SVN from the MediaWiki source code repository, at http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/TemplateInfo/. From a command line, you can call the following:

svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/TemplateInfo/

To view the code online, including version history for each file, you can go here.

[edit] Installation

After you've obtained a 'TemplateInfo' directory, place this directory within the main MediaWiki 'extensions' directory. Then, in the file 'LocalSettings.php' in the main MediaWiki directory, add the following line:

include_once("$IP/extensions/TemplateInfo/TemplateInfo.php");

[edit] Author

TemplateInfo was written by Yaron Koren, reachable at yaron57 -at- gmail.com.

[edit] Version

TemplateInfo is currently at version 0.1.

[edit] Contributing to the project

[edit] Bugs and feature requests

Send any bug reports and requests to Yaron Koren, at yaron57 -at- gmail.com.

[edit] Contributing patches to the project

If you found some bug and fixed it, or if you wrote code for a new feature, please create a patch by going to the "TemplateInfo" directory, and typing:

svn diff > descriptivename.patch

Then send this patch, with a description, to Yaron Koren.