Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Two Words: Laconic. Hovercards./reply (4)

I've been thinking of changing the way Laconic pages work for a while anyway, making them more amenable to transclusion. And then they would be more available on the main page too -- displayed in something like an infobox.

There's a couple ways I can think of doing this -- can't decide which sounds best. One is to wrap all of the non-content parts of the Laconic in tags, like I did with Yotsuba&!/Laconic -- that is transcludable now.

The other option is to use a Lua module that parses our existing Laconic pages to extract the useful bit -- available at Laconic (optional pagename argument). This works pretty well, but uses 1 expensive parser function (even though it should theoretically be cheaper than transclusion). Not sure which is the best approach -- both will rely on specific wikicode structure.