Forum:Template: Edit?

I have been pondering the problem of how to encode Children data. It is a big subject and I'd like to confine my inquiry to one piece of the puzzle. One solution I have been working on requires use of an edit button so that the user can click it to edit the content in another topic. wikipedia:Template Talk:Edit and variations of the same allow this. I could certainly transfer one over for use here, but the problem on wikia is that the code you use for this actually appears to be an external link, and so the spam prevention code is triggered.

I am wondering if there is an alternative preferred way (Template- whatever) of doing the same function on Wikia.

If there is an esoteric feature I could use in a template, that is fine. Although I prefer to keep templates simple, some utility templates are necessarily complex, and I have written and maintained some of them- eg some of the boolean templates before the functionality was added via reserved words to the wikimedia engine. -Knife Maker 16:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)