Sam Korn wrote:
On 12/19/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
If nothing else, this indicates another reason why nested- transclusion is problematic, and why complexity like this ought perhaps to be avoided. (But of course this observation does nothing to solve the current problem.)
True!
Perhaps a solution would be a sort of reverse whatlinkshere, showing all the pages that are transcluded by a page so that they can all be protected. Time-limited protection would also be useful here, but I doubt this mitigates the disadvantages in other areas.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toolserver/TStoc&diff=0&...
I'm offline at the moment, so I can't remember exactly what it's called, but I do recall that it looks through all the templates that are used - or at least it would if the toolserver was working.