User talk:Pling/Sandbox/Skill issue

Have you seen the issue with the section editing on Gaile's pages? Basically pressing the edit section link will not let you edit on the page but takes you to the template to edit that. Might trick some people, but I don't know if it's a big issue - anja   21:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I think your method for putting in the timestamps will fail. I tried it like that on another wiki, and apparently mediawiki still reads the s, so you don't have the five consecutive tildes. -- Armond Warblade 21:54, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * It's used for the RFA base template (granted, that's only four tildes), but I'm having some more trouble with that additional info section. As you can probably tell, I'm not the best with templates. --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 21:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed that.. the tildes may have to be put in manually for the date (unless someone else can find a way to get that in better). There's a test at User:Brains12/Sandbox/Skill issue/Test --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 22:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Even if the tildes would work, they would regenerate themselves each time the page is reloaded as the template is only transcluded not substituted. Also note Anja's comment above which is a big issue imo. poke | talk 22:03, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * This is the big problem I ran into. In the end we had to have one of the webmasters hax the mediawiki to make a new template (which instead of being put in with curly brackets used html-style tags, so it wasn't really user-intuitive). -- Armond Warblade[[Image:User Armond sig image.png]] 22:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, starting to see the problems. Hmm. Poke, you're an expert at all this malarky, could you try something? Or perhaps the tildes will have to be put in manually and have a NOEDITSECTION at the top --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 22:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * As I said it is not possible to have the date - which should only be calculated once - displayed, but managed by the template, and for the headings it is not possible due to an internal problem with the MediaWiki software. The only - and best - fix is to have the heading as an extra part before the template. poke | talk 22:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * or subst: it poke | talk 22:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Subst has my vote. I'd also say add a parameter and have them put the tildes in there. -- Armond Warblade[[Image:User Armond sig image.png]] 22:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I personally hate to subst template which do create divs or something complex :P poke | talk 22:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * If you want, take that out - that was just something I copied from another template. Also, could you make it so that only the information in the additional info parameter is only substed, not the actual if function? --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 22:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I've simplified it to its bare necessities. If you want to make any improvements, please go ahead. If you think it's enough, perhaps move it to Template:Skill issue. -- Brains12 \ Talk 00:56, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Another solution
Probably not the perfect one, but at least it's easier to create a page. User:Isaiah Cartwright/User feedback. poke | talk 20:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * What about creating another issue but on the same page? --[[Image:User Brains12 Spiral.png|15px| ]] Brains12 \ Talk 20:20, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Doesn't work :/ (as it's a createbox ^^) But it should not be that hard to copy the code from above imo :P poke | talk 20:24, 20 February 2008 (UTC)