Topic on Help talk:TemplateData

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Task T67550

Template date would include information about: the template always must be substituted (w:Help:Substitution ).

By the way, how can I include this link (w:Help:Substitution ) in the TemplateData?, to help people about what substitution means ?.

If in TemplateData appears subst=yes or similar, the template would be automatically substituted when used (without the need of using the subst: modifier in the own template.)

See: w:bugzilla:2003 – feature request to allow marking a template as being substituted without "subst:"

You can't add links in TemplateData. I believe this is a fundamental limitation in w:JSON (i.e., not something that can be fixed).

JSON can store just about any data – our action API uses JSON to transmit complex data structures, wikitext or even HTML. The only limitation is that both sides need to agree on the data format – we can actually already add wikitext to TemplateData, but as long as the data reusers (VisualEditor and TemplateWizard as first-party, as well as any third-party applications) don’t interpret it as wikitext, it won’t work.