Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:10 UTC
I'd like all pages to be embedable as a template. "What links here" be able to be used as a template... actually all pages should be able to be used as a template and every page should be able to be viewable as a category by passing an option ?view=category or something like that... and I'd like to have wiki links be able to include a "?", at least the special pages, because I'd like to be able to link to a "what links here" without a lot of work, however I just realized that a template would work for that.
I'm changing the summary of this bug to reflect the actual enhancement (i.e. the part that is not already available) and splitting the seperate issue of "category view" into a different bug (bug 816) so it can be discussed seperately. Oh, and as for easily linking to "what links here", you can use the subpage style: [[Special:Whatlinkshere/User:IMSoP]] will show the backlinks for the page [[User:IMSoP]]. Any ordinary page can already be included as a template by using {{Namespace:Pagename}} [e.g. {{User:IMSoP}}] pages in the "main" (article) namespace must be referenced with a leading ":" [e.g. {{:Main Page}}]. Dynamically generated pages (whose names begin "Special:"), such as Special:Whatlinkshere, cannot, since they technically have no content (nothing is stored in the database as being "the content of that page"). One hurdle to making these includable is that they are mostly not written in Wiki markup, but directly in HTML; whereas, AIUI, the current inclusion system just grabs raw wiki-text and dumps it in the middle of the page before page rendering begins. So the content generated by a Special: page would not render correctly if included by the current mechanisms. May I ask what purpose(s) you had in mind for this feature?
I just had an interesting thought relating to this (in answering a message on mediawiki-l about running arbitrary PHP): Maybe SpecialPage.php could have an "executeAsTemplate()" method, which returned wikitext to be included if the page was requested as an inclusion. That way, it could return "" by default, and potentially format things differently than accessing the page normally; and a site administrator could create Special: pages to do custom bits of php designed for embedding. They could even be given parameters: either using the sub-page style, like [[Special:Whatlinkshere/foo]] etc; or, by having template parameters passed to exeuteAsTemplate(), in an associative array or somesuch, so that you could do "{{Special:Feed|url=http://example.com/foo.atom}}" or whatever.
This is now possible, marking this as FIXED.
adding blocks bug 2447: allow inclusion of pages with parameters
Hallo! According to the summary *all* special pages should be includable. This request is FIXED in "fixed-in-cvs". Is there any reason why it is not available at the Wikimadia Foundation wikies? best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Special pages *which support it* are includable.
