For consistency's sake, all magic words and parser functions should be able to be preceded by a #. While we obviously can't go back in time and add consistency, add aliases seems perfectly acceptable.
Examples include {{PAGENAME}} --> {{#PAGENAME}}, {{lc:Foo}} --> {{#lc:Foo}}, etc.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
dasch wrote:
I think Behavior switches should stay as they are. And there should be a variable for a compatibility mode so that the old can be switched off, so when a wiki does not want use the old style anymore it can be disabled
dasch wrote:
maybe there could be different parserfunctions
for example like
{{#page:name}} = {{PAGENAME}}
{{#page:name|url}} = {{PAGENAMEE}}
{{#page:namespace}} = {{NAMESPACE}}
{{#page:talk}} = {{TALKPAGENAME}}
and
{{#server:url}} = {{SERVER}}
{{#server:version}} = {{CURRENTVERSION}}
just an idea, but I think that this is a good idea to create a parserfunction for every variable and give the possibility to disable variables