Template talk:WPauthor

Comment

Sharp template, Alek. :-) Stephen Ewen 02:49, 17 April 2007 (CDT)

I think "portions of" is fine. It implies you imported those portions and are not mirroring the WP article.  —Stephen Ewen (Talk) 13:59, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

Bug

If one attempts to include a hyperlink (e.g. to a specific version of an article on Wikipedia) in the first argument, this doesn't work. J. Noel Chiappa 21:13, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Turns out that this is because '=' is a no-no in a template argument (see here), and a lot of the URL's people were trying to use included an =. I'll work out a work-around, and document it. J. Noel Chiappa 15:06, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Try the ascii character code? --Robert W King 15:07, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Yeah, that did it - but I followed Wikipedia practise and stuck it in a template to make it easier to do. I tried just sticking an ASCII '=' in there, and that didn't work (I was hoping it would delay evaluation for long enough, but no soap). I have updated the instructions here, and will fix places that call it problematically. J. Noel Chiappa 15:34, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Well, I fixed many, but probably not all, problematic uses (there's just too many to look at every use to make sure it works OK). J. Noel Chiappa 17:18, 6 March 2008 (CST)

I'm starting to realize that there are probably any number of ways to fix this problem, including some that might be simpler; for example, wrapping <nowiki> tags around the arguments, or prepending a "1=" (because apparently only the first "=" is seen as an argument name/value separator, as long as there's no "|" in there which BTW means you only need to {{=}} the first "=" - alas, you probably can't just escape the first one, because then the second one will be treated as an argument name/value separator, sigh). I haven't tested any of these yet (except the "1=' one, which I just used to make the {{=}} work :-), just wanted to make a note of them. J. Noel Chiappa 14:50, 7 March 2008 (CST)

Bah, although the "1=" hack worked to do {{=}} (plain old {{tl|=}} gives {{[{{fullurl:Template:{{{1}}}|action=edit&redlink=1&preload=Template:New/preload&editintro=Template:New/editintro-redlink}} {{{1}}}]}}), it doesn't work when passing a URL with ='s in it to {{WPauthor}}, for reasons I don't understand. Maybe what I wrote about further ='s being ignored until you get to the next | was bogus? And anyway, that's the kind of 'fix' that might be broken by a new rev of the MediaWiki parser, so maybe the {{=}} hack is OK after all. J. Noel Chiappa 15:03, 7 March 2008 (CST)