On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org wrote:

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A central repository for templates and other stuff which is useful on many projects could solve the problems for Wikimedia projects. But not for other MediaWiki projects

Why not? InstantCommons was recently enabled: http://intelligentdesigns.net/blog/?p=91

It's working great. No more copying images from one wiki to another as long as the image is in commons. I wish I could get *that* for the infobox templates, {{fact}}, etc.

A central repository for templates would probably be *primarily* useful for third party MediaWiki projects, because of the language issues. To be useful across Wikimedia projects, localization issues would greatly complicate the implementation. For that reason, maybe Commons isn't really the right place for it...

I'll look into $wgEnableScaryTranscluding. The name scares me, though...

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InstantCommons is _not_ live. The code itself says it's very hacky and inefficient and should only be used for testing. Additionally, with no local caching (I implemented some preliminary description-page caching last night, still in development though), it'll just add to the WMF server load on _every_ pageview of your local wiki.

Please do not encourage people to use this yet...

-Chad