From a non-load related perspective though, if a template is HIGHLY USED, it
is likely that people now using it have laid out articles around it (e.g. an infobox) and making a alrge change to it could change the look and feel of tons of articles. For that reason alone, remember it never hurst to bring it up on the talk page, there's always the chance you also may be trying to reinvent the wheel with your change as well.
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----- Original Message ----- From: mdd4696@gmail.com To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Editing highly used templates
Hi all,
I'm curious to know exactly what the risk is from editing highly used templates. There are several archive header templates on enwiki which could potentially be used on many, many pages, and I want to ensure that if I make a modification to one of them that it doesn't have any ill effects.
If I make one edit to a template used on many infrequently visited pages, would that cause issues?
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