[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

[Nathan Russell]

On 1/6/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/6/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Good idea.  Is there some way this can be done on a per-namespace
> > > basis, though?  A lot of Wikipedia: pages (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Template
> > > messages]]) transclude a lot of templates; the use of {{tl}} has also
> > > become quite pervasive, both in Wikipedia: and in Talk:
> >
> > {{tl}} should be substituted.
>
> Does it work when substituted now?  I know there were some issues with
> that before.
>
> In any case, if we were to do this, we would need a bot to go through
> and substitute the massively-used shorthand templates: {{tl}},
> {{user}}, {{vandal}}, {{admin}}, etc.

Some of those are convenient.  For example, on [[WP:LA]], if the
admin2 template were substituted, and later changed, someone would
have to go through and change every listing by hand.