Author: emddudley

Description:
I'd like to request a "magic word" similar to {{formatnum:}} that pads a number
with leading zeros.

Many images on Commons are uploaded as a series with leading zeros on the
image's index. For example, all of the images at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BradPatrick/gallery have leading zeros.
Many cameras default to using leading zeros in their filenames. Automatically
generating these filenames in a template is difficult.

I don't want to encourage leading zeros in filenames, but if someone wants to
upload a large number of images, it's a huge pain to rename them all.

Examples:

• {{padzeros:2|4}} would render as 0002
• {{padzeros:02|4}} as 0002
• {{padzeros:0002|2}} as 02
• {{padzeros:1024|-1}} as 1024
• {{padzeros:1024|2}} as 1024

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement