Wiki Improvement Ideas

This page serves as a discussion platform for ideas on how to improve the wiki. Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Enable {{DISPLAYTITLE:}}

According to the Mediawiki Manual the configuration variable $wgAllowDisplayTitle is per default enabled but also needs $wgRestrictDisplayTitle to allow drastic change of the displayed page title. Enabling this setting allows beautifying titles like "Category:Learning" but has the drawback of breaking the link-title-mapping. In my opinion we should enable it so that we can do better localization. See next topic. Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Localisation of articles

I already added this to the Wiki Editing Hints. We should localise articles by adding e.g. "/de" for German translations to the article base name in English. I consider this the easiest way. There is another approach to also use categories for this. This would solve the title issue (see DISPLAYTITLE) — just create an article with localised title and use [[Catagory:de]] — but would abuse the concept of categories in my opinion as they suggest a technical classification rather than a linguistic one. What do you think? Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Parser Functions

Can we enable ParserFuncions? I would like to use #ifexist in order to make a language switching bar like the ones on the Mediawiki pages. Simow (talk) 19:52, 3 March 2015 (UTC)