Templates
In MediaWiki, templates are (mostly) pages which contain texts for multiple uses. It is a flexible and surprisingly versatile tool.
In this topic we explore the potential of mediawiki templates. For coordination of template coding and maintenance in Wikiversity, see wikiversity:templates. For introduction to templates, see help:templates.
Learning projects
editRecursive conversion
editSee category:Recursive conversion templates for a list of such templates
These templates are actually programs. They come in hand for demonstrations in such learning projects as Conway's game of life or Calculating the square root of a.
Existing programmes
edit- {{Euclidean algorithm}} is demonstrated in Euclidean algorithm
- {{factorise}} - so far a very primitive brute-force factoriser. It cannot handle even mildly large numbers, because there are limits on pre-expansion and post-expansion sizes. It can improve a lot.
- {{quadratic reciprocity}} - currently it does not work; to make it algorithmic, I think we should first master factorizations.
More ideas
edit- It would be good to have a usable list of prime numbers, with ,e.g, {{prime|3}}giving 5, the third prime number; or, {{nextprime|7}} giving 11. It would improve {{factorise}}. The task may be easier after m:StringFunctions is implemented.
Threaded discussions
editSee THREADNAV
Templates for css and javascripts
edit- {{click}} - to superimpose an invisible link on an image, but there are problems in its use
Unicode
edit- It would be great, especially for the language departments, to have such a template {{unihan database}} that {{unihan database|∢}} would give the link to the information page [1] on http://unicode.org/charts/unihan.html. It needs m:stringFunctions. (Please go to bugzilla:6455 and vote!)