Mediawiki: Template with reference (with a template)

Question

I want to make it easier for myself to create references in my wiki.

My current setup is that I have to do something like this:

<ref name="120507">Reference for something that happened on the {{createdate|120507}}</ref>

The template create date just turns the string YYMMDD into dd month YYYY

I want to simplify this by only needing:

{{ref|120507}}

But I cant seem to get the property right, and it won't traverse into the template createdate either. It just URL-encodes the curly brackets instead of taking the value of {{{1}}}.

<ref name="{{{1}}}">Sometext {{createdate|{{{1}}}}}.</ref>

This is what I tried.

Answer 1

You can use the {{#tag}} magic word to do this. So, your template would look something like this:

{{#tag:ref|Sometext {{createdate|{{{1}}}}}.|name={{{1}}}}}

Although exactly this code wouldn't work correctly, because name cannot be an integer.