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Hi,
With template system, I am referring to the mechanism whereby content from other pages in a new template namespace can be transcluded, and keys/ values are assigned by the calling page:
Keep wikipedia simple!
The proposed template system as full programming language is overkill, at least it looks to me like that. And it makes wikipedia viruses possible, I guess. (Or at least something like an undetected silly change to the template page resulting in 197 country pages showing nonsense).
Of course a template mechanism could be useful for many things -- but it also moves Wikipedias markup language further in the direction of a programming language, i.e. something most non-techs see as complicated. Simple templates could be a reduction of complexity, but if templates become equivalent to turing machines, it's far to much ...
Best regards,
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