Moin,
On Friday 07 April 2006 10:59, Locke Cole wrote:
On 4/7/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
Yes, that was my point, too. How do you intent to distribute all the wonderfull little "code-snippets" written on wikipedia to other wikis?
If they're working from a database dump, they'll be in the dump.
That would be only usefull for people who want to replicate the entire wikipedia, e.g. almost none. I was speaking about the thousand other wikis that run mediawiki.
If you meant more generally, I suppose they could be copied to meta and categorized if really useful.
So you need to re-invent software distribution for them (which was my point).
And you also need:
* testing framework * versioning * debugging * profiling * security reports, updates and packaging
If the feature is really so usefull as claimed, than we will see thousand little usefull computing templates littered all over the place. That will be messy and I don't want neither to maintain it, nor take blame when it blows up (e.g. becomes unmanageble).
I place dibs on the first Template:Virus in late 2007 :-D
Best wishes,
Tels