On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman
<d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:
5: Remember that you need to do this for EACH AND
EVERY individual wiki…
...or, from what I have seen, if you do it only on enwiki
then users
will just create another fork of the template on smaller wikis and:
* keep using the OLD and BROKEN template whenever they can (easy for them)
* use the NEW and FIXED template only on pages which are translated
from enwiki (easy again... people are lazy)
This is why we have proposals like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GlobalTemplates
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global-Wiki
Helder