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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org