Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org wrote:
It's not about "Wikipedia content", but about being able to grab things you see on another wiki and use or adapt them to your own needs. We get lots of questions from people trying to grab some particular template off Wikipedia to use on their own site for their own needs.
Sure. The point still holds. Some third parties would be unable to use Wikipedia templates, yes. But given the tangle of dependencies the major ones have, and how complicated they are, I'm guessing most small third-party wikis don't bother in the end anyway.
That's why we want to fix it! :)
It *should* be fairly trivial to fetch a template/plugin sort of thing off of one wiki and put it on another. Consider this as one of our goals for next-gen templating.
-- brion