Thread:Template talk:Ximg/Making this template more generic/reply (2)

The reason I mentioned making it more generic was because taking the long view I would like more people to use the wiki for a variety of things, and having a simply named template for aligning external images is very useful for them. Ximg is just something we can point them to and off they go.

You on the other hand plan to add a lot of images in the immediate future, and know what the URL will be.

I propose that we make this template generic, and have it use the full URL, and you create a new template that includes your URL hardcoded in. Then changes to the generic template won't mess with your setup, but if you switch your hosting you can edit that template without reworking the logic on the generic one. How does that sound?

I love the work you doing, by the way! It is really killer that you started adding those complications. I hope to Semantic MediaWiki turned on here soon, I think that will make your head explode; you can do a crazy amount of structuring data. I bet you could even build an entire character generator in it. Pathfinder is deep beast, but I plan on doing a proof of concept with Dungeon World, since it is a smaller dataset, and it is licensed sanely.