Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (137 mails)

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

Shayon wrote:
> John E. Perry wrote:
> > Thanks, Shayon, ...
>
> Your Welcome!! :)
>
> > Yes, I see that that site is very helpful.  It also supports my use of
> > the term template
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages),
> Thats Good!!
>
> > although it
> > uses only small snippets rather than full-blown page templates (at least
> > I haven't run across any page-level templates yet).  I wonder how they
> > get the uniformity of appearance.  I suppose opensuse does its pages the
> > same way?  I haven't tried yet to edit any opensuse pages.

Arrgh! I got all wrapped up in what I was saying and forgot to finish my
point, which was that templates are for simplifying and regularizing
common features of a document, or even the whole document itself, and
what I was seeing in opensuse, for instance, in the page "Discover It",
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Checked_Pages, was ...

> In openSUSE , templates are basically designed for assigning the
> articles to certain category.Like - ''Pages that need Expanding'' ,
> ''Pages to Delete'',etc.

which looks to me more like assigning them to categories or namespaces,
as you say above.

Yet there  isn't any full-fledged template
> working like an page/article.And i suppose we dont require it.Because
> articles which fall under the category like HOWTOs,SDB,etc and all cant
> be noted down under a  template ,as it contains manual insertion of data
>  and there might be a change in the article as the OS Version gets updated.

Well, no -- the template itself can contain unvarying information, as
many of the MediaWiki templates do (and all the opensuse templates I've
seen so far), but look at that page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages again.  You'll
see that many of them are sets of tags for either structure or format.

I see that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template has more to say
about templates; the templates I've been thinking about are "templates
with parameters".

> Where as the templates in openSUSE are designed on a default basis.

Which appear to be (so far) "templates with no parameters".

Yes, clearly there's a lot more that I have to learn :-).

jp
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