On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org wrote:
A central repository for templates and other stuff which is useful on many projects could solve the problems for Wikimedia projects. But not for other MediaWiki projects
Why not? InstantCommons was recently enabled: http://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/?p=91
It's working great. No more copying images from one wiki to another as long as the image is in commons. I wish I could get *that* for the infobox templates, {{fact}}, etc.
A central repository for templates would probably be *primarily* useful for third party MediaWiki projects, because of the language issues. To be useful across Wikimedia projects, localization issues would greatly complicate the implementation. For that reason, maybe Commons isn't really the right place for it...
I'll look into $wgEnableScaryTranscluding. The name scares me, though...