includes in nodelets

Is there a way to do an include in a Node? I'm imagining something like a link to a FreeNodelet or maybe Private Scratchpad. For instance, I'm about ready to post chapter 0 of my Cryptogram series and am thinking of including intra-series nav links in all of them.

I can think of some reasons NOT to do this, but I can think of a lot of reasons it might be helpful. If it's not already implemented, perhaps the pmdev group might consider it as a feature when they have spare time?

I humbly seek wisdom.

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Re: includes in nodelets (push) by tye (Sage) on Aug 29, 2007 at 04:12 UTC
If you want to use templates in the contents of nodes (I didn't figure out that this is what you wanted but someone in the CB mentioned that and I think it fits), then those need to be done in a "push" model, not a pull model. That is, when you modify the source material, it would be pushed to all nodes that depend on it. It is unlikely to be implemented as pulling in material from somewhere else whenever a node is displayed. This is more efficient because nodes get displayed over and over but the "to be included" content is going to change extremely rarely. It also means that you can implement this yourself when you have spare time. :) - tye	[reply]
Re^2: includes in nodelets (push) by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 29, 2007 at 10:26 UTC
Push model is how I belive mediawiki templates are implemented: when you change a template, it invalidates the caches for all pages including it. (For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Purge, and stuff they link to.)	[reply]
Re^3: includes in nodelets (push) by goibhniu (Hermit) on Aug 29, 2007 at 12:10 UTC
Thanks Tye and ambrus. I think it'll be a while before I'm good enough to join pmdev, but I'll start reading the links from ambrus anyway. I humbly seek wisdom.	[reply]
Re^4: includes in nodelets (!pmdev) by tye (Sage) on Aug 29, 2007 at 14:24 UTC
Re^5: includes in nodelets (!pmdev) by goibhniu (Hermit) on Aug 29, 2007 at 17:18 UTC
Re: includes in nodelets by ambrus (Abbot) on Aug 29, 2007 at 19:40 UTC
You probably already know this, but "nodelet" is perlmonks term for the little boxes appearing in the side of perlmonks, like the chatterbox. You can get info about them at the FAQ. This was something that caused me difficulty to understand your question at once.	[reply]
Re^2: includes in nodelets by goibhniu (Hermit) on Aug 29, 2007 at 19:51 UTC
Ah - sorry about that. The problem in my head at that point was where to include from. The nodelet idea was just a brainstorm. I've since tried to read about the Everything Development Engine, but haven't gotten very far. I humbly seek wisdom.	[reply]
Re: includes in nodelets by Anonymous Monk on Aug 29, 2007 at 03:27 UTC
whats input whats output	[reply]