Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wiktionary/Something like Extension:Variables to simplify template calls/Proposal/en
- Problem: As I wrote in 2020:
Some templates used on Polish Wiktionary (e.g., wikt:pl:Szablon:imię, wikt:pl:Szablon:imię odojcowskie, wikt:pl:Szablon:forma rzeczownika, wikt:pl:Szablon:forma przymiotnika) put entries into laguage-dependent categories. To do that they need to know what language the entry is about. As many dictionary entries are stored in a single article (one section per one language), those templates cannot determine the language with the standard MW tools. Thus, the language needs to be provided in the template call (like
{{imię odojcowskie|ukraiński|Абаку́м|m}}or{{forma rzeczownika|pl}})- This could be done with the Variables extension, but it is unavailable on Wikimedia and the description page of the extension says that it “[…] is incompatible with plans to parallelize the parsing, as is intended by the use of Parsoid. Therefore, the future of this extension is uncertain, and it is expected to become incompatible with the standard MediaWiki parser within a few years.”
- Proposed solution: Re-evaluate the “plans to parallelize the parsing” in the context of Wiktionaries and develop something like the mentioned extension or a completely new way to allow co-operation between templates.
- Who would benefit: Wiktionary users who struggle with creating a dictionary using a software meant to edit an encyclopedia; especially the new ones for whom the complexity of the code and the differences between it and the final result are an entry threshold.
- More comments: The workarounds are not good enough.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: DrogosławTALK 12:54, 28 January 2023 (UTC)