Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:06 UTC
Include path for templates: A set of pages (e.g. a Wikibook or Wikiversity course) may share the same local templates. It is currently not possible to make the required templates sub-pages of one page and to allow the other pages to access them conveniently. Example: A page "Mentoring Handbook/Chapter 1" would have refer to "Mentoring Handbook/LocalTemplate" instead of setting INCLUDE_PATH="Mentoring Handbook/" and referring just to "LocalTemplate".
You can back up a subpage level by adding two periods (..) to the front of the title -- so adding {{../LocalTemplate}} to [[Mentoring Handbook/Chapter 1]] would transclude [[Mentoring Handbook/LocalTemplate]]. Does this solve your problem?
It would solve my problem, but both {{:../quote}} and {{../quote}} fail to include my template.
There's no need for local templates at all. Put them in the Template namespace; *that's what it's for*. Alternatively, use the full path: {{Mentoring Handbook/LocalTemplate}}. I suspect the developers will WONTFIX this since this is a request for pointless functionality (if I'm understanding the request properly), but I'll let them handle the fields.
A 'template path' of this sort leads to obvious problems with conflicts; eg ordering, where does the link point, etc. We have similar issues already with images and shared repositories, but in a much more restricted case. I'd tend to agree for now that just using the full name of the template should be quite sufficient.
