Template talk:User scheme
This is silly, it suggests that "me" am the only Schemer. —Ashley Y 07:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Ah, the limitations of two-valued logic. Perhaps the right answer is (define (schemer? user) (or (equal? user me) (loop))) RPTB1 17:22, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- I've made it more sensible. —Ashley Y 05:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
It'd be neat to personalize this template to use the actual user-name, instead of "me". It seems like BASEPAGENAME would suffice for the user-name, since presumably this template only gets called from within User: pages. But to retain flexibility, we could have the template take the name as an argument whose default value would be BASEPAGENAME. It's an easy change; it only means modifying the template to change "me" to "User scheme" (and, adding any documentation?). If you're curious, I've tested out these options over on incubator.wikimedia.org [[1]]; from there you can try {{User:Not-just-yeti/TemplateTest1}} as well as {{User:Not-just-yeti/TemplateTest1|name=yoyo}}. A few questions:
- Should this be a change to the existing template, or should we make a whole new template? (I vote, change the existing one. It's a friendly upgrade.)
- Currently, "me" links to Category:Users_Scheme. If we change it to be the user-name, the intuitive destination would be to their User page. But, this would most commonly just be a self-link to the same page its on (which gets rendered as regular text in black). Although it'd mostly be a useless link, I'm inclined to do that anyway, and perhaps change the lambda-image so that it links to the Category.
- If no objections, and nobody else makes these changes, then I will. But how long I should wait, to see if anybody objects?