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Any plan to update Help:Magic Words?

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Omotecho (talkcontribs)

I am translating Help:Magic Words, and think this page will be very helpful for new editors. However, it says to see Extension:StringFunctions, but when I open that page, it notes:

This extension is obsolete. All of these functions are now integrated into the ParserFunctions extension, but are only available if an administrator sets $wgPFEnableStringFunctions = true; in LocalSettings.php. The documentation of these functions remains here.
MediaWiki's core magic words implement urlencode and padleft/padright.

Is there any better way to help eager new editors avoid confusion, or at the moment, I am afraid those two pages don't coordinate in parts. Any idea?

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

The problem with that page is that it's both the documentation of string functions and the page for the StringFunction extension

The documentation for string functions should probably be in a Help: namespace, the same way we have Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

Omotecho (talkcontribs)

I agree, that way you need not to scroll up/down that much. It will be much handier to compare/contrast each string functions if they are devided by function, I guess.

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