Wiki Improvement Ideas

This page serves as a discussion platform for ideas on how to improve the wiki. Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Enable {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}

According to the Mediawiki Manual the configuration variable $wgAllowDisplayTitle is per default enabled but also needs $wgRestrictDisplayTitle to allow drastic change of the displayed page title. Enabling this setting allows beautifying titles like "Category:Learning" but has the drawback of breaking the link-title-mapping. In my opinion we should enable it so that we can do better localization. See next topic. Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Localisation of articles

I already added this to the Wiki Editing Hints. We should localise articles by adding e.g. "/de" for German translations to the article base name in English. I consider this the easiest way. There is another approach to also use categories for this. This would solve the title issue (see DISPLAYTITLE) — just create an article with localised title and use [[Catagory:de]] — but would abuse the concept of categories in my opinion as they suggest a technical classification rather than a linguistic one. What do you think? Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

• I vote for the former method. It's cleaner, and it's used by MediaWiki/Wikipedia so we know it works well. The latter method is an abuse of categories, as you said, and there's no way to automatically link between different translations of the same article. JKSH (talk) 17:12, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

• OK, thanks for the feedback. I start deploying the former method on the How-to's now. Simow (talk) 20:15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Parser Functions

Can we enable ParserFuncions? I would like to use #ifexist in order to make a language switching bar like the ones on the Mediawiki pages. Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)