Talk:LSL Functions by Subject

Categories?

Hm... What's the benefit of this article over categories? Having it all on one page? -- ^{(talk|contribs)} 01:21, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Don't forget that it isn't bugged like the categories. Course I pity the person who has to update it periodically (I'm not doing it). I wonder if I updated the static lists during the last function add? -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 04:09, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

@ bugged categories: Are you referring to the localized pages showing up in the English cats? I noticed that a couple of times and pondered if it'd be an artifact from an ancient template change that didn't propagate through the wiki? A null edit on the localized page usually fixed it, tho I don't know: Is it re-occuring / just a temporary fix? I think I once read MediaWiki documentation, which mentioned bugginess for categories applied by templates, tho I don't recall it in detail.

There seems to be more category weirdness, as some don't honor their __HIDDENCAT__ flag. E.g. Category:Pages with translation/es on the main page. Ugly...

@ last function add: How do you keep track of these? Might be time again to fiddle with the GeShi highlighter and add the latest additions.

-- ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:56, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

@ bugged categories: That would be it, and sometimes the english articles don't even show up properly. I haven't seen any lasting fixes for it. I kinda forget but I think the logic for it may be in a nested template (used by all the LSL templates) it might be the nesting that is the problem. I hadn't read that before in the MediaWiki docs, but then I haven't done an exhaustive search.

Never noticed the problems with __HIDDENCAT__ but apathy has over taken me with regards to taking the time to applying to all of those translation categories.

@ how do I keep track? ummm I look at what the high numbered functions are in the dynamic part of the id category page and then I look to see if they are listed in the static portion. Then I mod the generator page to include the new functions and copy and paste the code (after stripping it of the comments and changing it to the right type of list).

-- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm interested to have this map of LSL functions for my own. So why not create it here? I will continue the edit on my user page and will make it available when almost complete. Michele Wardark 5:00, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

You don't need to do that, it looked good. We didn't mean to scare you off or discourage you. If we thought the information was sub-par we would have commented to that effect. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 05:07, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

p.s. I would make the headers link to the categories.

Yeah, like Strife said, discouragement wasn't the goal. My comment was motivated by a mix of curiosity and interest (since I fear that a great part of the category's target audience isn't actually using any categories to browse the wiki). So I tried to understand the intention behind the page to think about how to make it easier to keep up to date. I pondered if something like Extension:CategoryTree could be used to meet the same goal. (In case we had the extension and in case categories would work reliably...)

-- ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:56, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

I'd like Semantic MediaWiki. -- Strife ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)