[Commons-l] We'd like a better template message transclusion.

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 22:14:23 UTC 2007


On 1/11/07, Robin Schwab <contact at robinschwab.ch> wrote:
> Cool Cat schrieb:
> > I have actually been working on just that for some time now. All I
> > currently have is javascript hacks which would not even work if the
> > person does not have javascript enabled. Javascript is also slow,
> > another reason to avoid it. But I share your reason. See [[ User
> > talk:Cool Cat/Sandbox
>
> I saw the example, nice tool but it has a principal hook:
> Each user downloads all languages which will generate huge traffic on a
> template like Template:GFDL
>
> So I think we need another technology. Daniel Arnold has a proposal that
> works, see
>
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8287
>
> and vote for this feature request here:
>
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=8287

Please don't just go 'vote' for this.. There are unsolved technical
problems with the proposal as standing (it totally breaks caching),
voting won't fix that.. coding will.



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