Helder wrote:
This is why we have proposals like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GlobalTemplates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global-Wiki
Yes, a million times this. We must figure out a way to centralize templates so that maintenance is easier. The current system of per-project wiki templates really strains under scale as many wikis have few active editors and most of them are not technical.
Regarding inline styling specifically, I feel like we had this exact conversation a year ago on Bugzilla or wikitech-l. As I recall, the gist of the previous discussion was that we need to better educate users about what good practice is, perhaps provide testing better tools (make it easier to see how it looks on mobile, as Brion suggests), and then slowly try to deprecate inline styling over the next few years.
I'm curious to see where the "Allow styling in templates" request for comments goes (cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?curid=130320), particularly with regard to the goal of atomizing content, which I think the Parsoid and VisualEditor (Editing!) teams seem to want. While I probably generally agree with trying to kill inline styling, it does have seem to have a convenient advantage of being more easily encapsulated.
Related: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35704
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