Help:TemplateData/gl



Qué é TempleteData?
TemplateData é unha maneira de almacenar información acerca dun modelo e dos seus parámetros, de forma que o editor visual sexa capaz de recuperala e mostrala no editor de modelos, facendo máis doada a edición de modelos.

TemplateData permite ós usuarios escribir pequenos fragmentos de dados estruturados nun modelo de páxina, ou ser transcluída a ese modelo de modelo (como na páxina de documentación). Unha vez que un modelo ten estruturados os seus dados, pode ser mostrada apropiadamente no editor visual. Aínda que isto poida sonar complexo, é en realidade moi sinxelo.



Estrutura de TemplateData
A estrutura de TemplateData baséase no estándar JSON, e é bastante sinxelo. Teña en conta que todas as descricións en TemplateData deben estar en texto plano (sen texto wiki, sen ligazóns, etc.).

A primeira cousa que hai que facer é escribir un par de etiquetas, en calqueira parte na subpáxina de documentación da plantilla, como por exemplo:

Isto dille ó software que todo o que está entre as dúas etiquetas é o TemplateData, e debe ser referenciado cando se utilice o modelo.



Exemplo
As descricións dentro de TemplateData seguen unha distribución estándar, digamos que vostede ten un modelo chamado "Commons" para ligar a unha categoría de Commons sobre un tema en particular. Necesítase un parámetro obrigatorio: o nome da categoría en Commons. O seu TemplateData sería algo así:

Mostrarase no modelo do seguinte xeito: {       "description": "Un modelo para ligar unha categoría de Commons sobre un artigo", "params": { "1": {                       "label": "Categoría de Commons", "description": "A categoría de Commons á que desexa ligar.", "default": "Category:CommonsRoot", "type": "string", "required": true }       } }



Descrición e parámetros
Once you're done, hit "save". If you've made errors, it will not let you save (which is disruptive, but means you can't break anything). Should you run into errors, explain on the feedback page what you were trying to do, and we will be happy to help.

Note that each bit of information is enclosed in quotation marks (except for  and  ), and separated from the next bit by a comma (unless it's the last one).



Parameter aliases
Some templates allow a same parameter to have different names.

For example,  could also be written as   or.

To add this information to TemplateData, you simply need to add the aliases to the parameter's information:



Multiple parameters
If you have multiple parameters, just repeat each section (starting from the "1" tag) and fill it out as you see fit. Note that if a template has multiple parameters, you need to separate them with a comma in the templatedata, like so:



Similar parameters
When a template has multiple parameters, sometimes some of them can be of the same kind. In this case, you only need to provide full properties for the first one, and the others can "inherit" their properties from it.



Blank boilerplate
You can copy the blank boilerplate below to add new TemplateData to a template. Only the most common tags are included.



Limitations and questions

 * Missing features — TemplateData is very much an example of tool that was made available with few features, in hope that users would help to guide development of features that they desired. If you'd like to request new features for TemplateData, please let us know.
 * Delays in showing in templates — After adding TemplateData to a template, the metadata should be visible immediately when the template is opened in VisualEditor. However, it is possible that it takes hours before the metadata show. You can force an update by making a null edit to the template page itself (not the documentation subpage). To perform a null edit, open the template page for editing, and save the page without making any change.
 * Current issues — A list of current bugs and feature requests is available in bugzilla.



Tools

 * TemplateDataEditor — A user script that makes the process of adding TemplateData easier. It currently exists in English and French, and can easily be translated into other languages.
 * TemplateData Wizard — A tool that generates TemplateData through an interactive interface.
 * Skeleton TemplateData generator — A tool that reads the source wikicode of a template, tries to find all the parameters used and outputs a skeleton document with the parameters listed.
 * JSONLint — A tool that allows you to validate manually-written JSON to help find errors in the syntax.