Hoi, Let us please appreciate what is being said here: "Wikipedia is a horrible place to copy templates from". We pride ourselves of being open source and the current templates make us as bad as the worst proprietary vendor. We have what is effectively an API and it is not documented at all. Thanks, GerardM
2009/2/1 Daniel Friesen dan_the_man@telus.net
^_^ Wikipedia is already a horrible place to copy templates from. Unlike Wikipedia most other MW installations don't bother turning on Tidy, and Wikipedia abuses that /feature/ way to much.
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Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com
wrote:
That would be like adding a dependancy on Lua extension for reusers, as the core templates will be implemented in Lua.
Yes, that would be the major disadvantage I can see. In practice, nobody can reuse large chunks of Wikipedia content on shared hosting anyway, since it's way too big, but it would be a serious obstacle for people who want to reuse only parts of Wikipedia.
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