Last modified: 2012-12-19 14:06:51 UTC
If I use {{Special:Prefixindex/User:Example/UBX/}}, I can get a list of pages, but I cannot substitute it to reduce load on the database servers and insert the page list directly into the page wikicode.
I'm wondering what kind of code would substing a special page produce? Some kind of a wiki table, messy div or what?
That would have to depend upon how the special page handles things. Right now, we don't have a standardised interface for including special pages, let alone substituting them.
For substing you need wikitext. Special pages generate HTML. This can not be implemented without a complete rewrite of the special page system. Perhaps this should be resolved as LATER.
I like Daniel's suggestion. I've resolved it as LATER. It was an idea, since there's no easy way I can find to get a list of pages with a certain prefix without including a special page, and I wanted to subst the output so the parser cache wouldn't be invalidated.
LATER has arrived :) Is this something that is still needed?
[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html . Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest". For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]
