Module: Infoboxer::Templates
- Defined in:
- lib/infoboxer/templates.rb,
lib/infoboxer/templates/set.rb,
lib/infoboxer/templates/base.rb
Overview
This module covers advanced MediaWiki templates usage.
It is seriously adviced to read Wikipedia docs or at least look through it (and have it opened while reading further).
If you just have a page with templates and want some variable value (like "page about country - infobox - total population"), you should be totally happy with Infoboxer::Tree::Template and its features.
What this module does is, basically, two things:
- allow you to define for arbitrary templates how they are converted to text; by default, templates are totally excluded from text, which is not most reasonable behavior for many formatting templates;
- allow you to define additional functionality for arbitrary templates; many of them containing pretty complicated logic (see, for ex., Template:Convert), and it seems reasonable to extend instances of such a template.
Infoboxer allows you to define Set of template-specific classes for some site/domain. There is already defined set of most commonly used templates at en.wikipedia.org (so, most of English Wikipedia texts will be rendered correctly, and also some advanced functionality is provided). You can take a look at lib/infoboxer/definitions/en.wikipedia.org.rb to feel it (and also see a couple of TODOs and FIXMEs and other considerations).
From Infoboxer's point-of-view, templates are the most complex part of Wikipedia, and we are currently trying hard to do the most reasonable things about them.
Future versions also should:
- define more of common English Wikipedia templates;
- define templates for other popular wikis;
- allow to add template definitions on-the-fly, while loading some page.