Editing User:Pharap/Wiki Improvement Proposals (section)

==== Implementation ====

As a proof of concept, I have implemented all the aforementioned templates:
* A template that accepts a [[Dictionary:Full Word List|Dictionary]] page name:
** <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word OTS]]<nowiki>|</nowiki>Teledahn<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> → {{User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word OTS|Teledahn}}
* A template that accepts [[Dnifont]]:
** <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word Dnifont]]<nowiki>|</nowiki>teleDan<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> → {{User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word Dnifont|teleDan}}
* A template that accepts either:
** <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word]]<nowiki>|</nowiki>Teledahn<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> → {{User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word|Teledahn}}
** <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word]]<nowiki>|</nowiki>ots=Teledahn<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> → {{User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word|ots=Teledahn}}
** <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word]]<nowiki>|</nowiki>dnifont=teleDan<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> → {{User:Pharap/Templates/D'ni word|dnifont=teleDan}}

Discovering how to implement this solution took me quite a lot of research as at first I didn't know about the existance of the [[Property:OTS|OTS]], [[Property:NTS|NTS]], and [[Property:IPA|IPA]] properties, as their existence was somewhat buried in the [[Module:Dict D'ni|Dict D'ni]] module and {{tl|IPA}} template respectively. After figuring those out I managed to discover some modules that support the '<code>dnifont2ots</code>' and '<code>dnifont2nts</code>' functions.

It also took me a while to realise that the syntax <code><nowiki>[[Property::Value]]</nowiki></code> can be used to declare a value for a property in the same way as <code><nowiki>{{#set: Property=Value}}</nowiki></code>, and that consequently the following two lines of the D'ni Dict module are producing two properties:
* <code><nowiki>output = output..'* [[OTS]]: [[OTS::'..dnifont2ots(args['dnifont'])..']]\n'</nowiki></code>
* <code><nowiki>output = output..'* [[NTS]]: [[NTS::'..dnifont2nts(args['dnifont'])..']] '</nowiki></code>

Specifically:
* If the expression <code><nowiki>dnifont2ots(args['dnifont'])</nowiki></code> were to produce <code>teledahn</code> then the output <code><nowiki>* [[OTS]]: [[OTS::teledahn]]</nowiki></code> would be inserted into the page.
* If the expression <code><nowiki>dnifont2nts(args['dnifont'])</nowiki></code> were to produce <code>teledan</code> then the output <code><nowiki>* [[NTS]]: [[NTS::teledan]]</nowiki></code> would be inserted into the page.

In the case of the {{tl|IPA}} template, I simply hadn't peeked at its source. At one point I had separately thought of the possibility of including such a property in the {{tl|IPA}} template, but for a while after I had simply presumed that it wouldn't be there and hadn't thought to check until I ended up looking at the source by chance when editing my User page and noticing the property's presence.

After getting a working prototype, I went back and refined the templates several times, including changes such as adding a <code>link</code> parameter, changing how I was using the 'dnifont2ots' facilities (due to discovering a second module with the same functionality), and splitting the hover text over multiple lines.