Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Implementing the Babel extension - Wikitech-l

3 Jul 2008

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Anthony &lt;wikimail(a)inbox.org&gt; wrote:
...
  On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Marcus Buck
&lt;me(a)marcusbuck.org&gt; wrote:
  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