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Wikipedia "templates" Part 2

Fri 01 March 2013

I'll start this adventure off with the basics, what one would expect in a template language for an online encyclopedia. We'll be skipping all the text-formatting and layout markup since they're well-documented and very straight forward. You can find it on the Help:Wiki markup page, I'll be skipping the …continue

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Wikipedia "templates" Part 1

Mon 25 February 2013

Wikipedia templates seem to have grown organically, and that's the nicest way to describe it. They look simple at first glance, just a bunch of squiggly brackets to denote everything, how bad can it be?

In this multi-part series, I'll be writing about the complicated bits of the wikipedia template …continue

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Wikipedia "templates"

Sat 23 February 2013

I've been dealing with Wikipedia 'templates' recently, so I'll be exploring their syntax, parsing, and rendering in the next few posts. Here's a taste:

Wikipedia templates seem to have grown organically, and that's the nicest way to describe it. They look simple at first glance, just a bunch of squiggly …continue

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