Last modified: 2013-07-25 07:04:19 UTC
Hello, i hope that it is okay to request new features here in MediaZilla like it is done in other huge projects using bugzilla too. I would not know where else to put it. It's just a small thing that should be fast implemented. It is about the Variables regarding the Pagename which is important for writing dynamic templates. My idea is to introduce a Variable Names ROOTPAGENAME which has similar content like BASEPAGENAME. ROOTPAGENAME should only contain the name of the topmost page without namespace, e.g. for "User:Name/Article/Subarticle" it should be "Name". BASEPAGENAME would be "Name/Article" here. For those of you who think that this is not necessary to implement this let me show you a little example for what this is good for: Recently i wanted to change a Template in our german wikipedia, Named Vorlage:Archiv. This is a template which can be included into archived-discussion pages. It is very common to store those archives in subpages. For example For wikipedia:de:Internetforum there are archives in wikipedia:de:Internetforum/Archiv/Diskussionsforum and wikipedia:de:Internetforum/Archiv/Webforum (this is because there were two articles once which have been combined in that new article and the old discussion-pages have been moved there). Similarily the heavy discussions on Mainpages are often moved to Mainpage/archive/date . I wanted to introduce a dynamic link into that template which point to the current discussion. If i used [[Discussion:{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] than it would point to a wrong page which does not exist. Here [[Discussion:{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]] would be needed. greetings and the best wishes, Warhog
You can use the {{#titleparts}} parser function to obtain this.
#titleparts requires the installation of an additional extension just to work. BASEPAGENAME is a misnomer and we should have had ROOTPAGENAME inside core a long time ago. I see absolutely no reason to not include such a simple and basic magic word inside of core.
If someone wants to do this, it should be easy enough. The Title object already has a "getRootText()" method that does exactly what you want, so you can just copy the code for {{BASEPAGENAME}} and change the call to "getBaseText()" to "getRootText()". Look for "basepagename" in includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php, includes/parser/Parser.php, includes/MagicWord.php, and languages/messages/MessagesEn.php. Then look for "BASEPAGENAME" in tests/parser/parserTests.txt and maintenance/fuzz-tester.php. Then add mention in RELEASE-NOTES-1.21 (or whatever version we're up to once someone gets around to this), stick it in Gerrit, and add me as a reviewer. (In reply to comment #2) > BASEPAGENAME is a misnomer Why shouldn't "Foo/Bar/Baz" be considered the base of "Foo/Bar/Baz/Quux"? > I see absolutely no reason to not include such a simple and basic magic word > inside of core. So do it then.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > BASEPAGENAME is a misnomer > > Why shouldn't "Foo/Bar/Baz" be considered the base of "Foo/Bar/Baz/Quux"? > > > I see absolutely no reason to not include such a simple and basic magic word > > inside of core. > > So do it then. I have a bunch of changesets that need my attention and haven't had any time to work on MW stuff lately.
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/60198 (Gerrit Change I71ef0a15c95c9145462f3aa7fdb3ed11dac79265)
(In reply to comment #5) > Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/60198 (Gerrit Change > I71ef0a15c95c9145462f3aa7fdb3ed11dac79265) Status Merged
