Templates management

[Gianluca Rigoletti]

I really like this idea of inheritance. It probably can fit for what we
need. This way we can have a simple and clean structure on meta and don't
have to double the work like Cristian pointed.
+1 for what Riccardo wrote




2016-02-07 20:52 GMT+01:00 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>:

> Hi Gian,
>
> On 7 February 2016 at 20:12, Gianluca Rigoletti <
> gianluca.rigoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Proposed by ruphy, is to use templates just for html/css layouts.
>> Speaking about the template AddCourse, we would have to write in every page
>> of every department the message "Want to add a new course? ..."
>
>
> thanks for bringing this up.
> Let me explain a little bit more how the proposal would work: because the
> strategy will differ a little. Having HTML/CSS templates on Meta, does not
> prevent new templates from being added on the domains.
>
> The idea, in your example, would work as follow:
>
> meta:
> - have a generic "infobox" template, with all the looks and features, but
> no user-visible strings
> it/en/...:
> - have a specialized "AddCourse" template, which inherits from the first
> one (i.e. uses it), and *only* adds the relevant strings, correctly
> translated.
>
> An example of this can be seen here:
> http://it.wikitolearn.org/Template:WarningBox
> and
> http://it.wikitolearn.org/Template:Bozza
>
> This means that you're still using templates and their convenience, but
> abstracting away all the technical details. When changes are needed, they
> only need to be performed once, and they get automatically propagated to
> all the language domains, without breaking translations (and so on...)
>
> Variables are also an option (see parserfunctions), but they are
> apparently quite heavy on the server.
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo
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