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Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 13:29:43 UTC 2006


Sam Korn wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>> If nothing else, this indicates another reason why nested-
>> transclusion is problematic, and why complexity like this ought
>> perhaps to be avoided.  (But of course this observation does
>> nothing to solve the current problem.)
> 
> True!
> 
> Perhaps a solution would be a sort of reverse whatlinkshere, showing
> all the pages that are transcluded by a page so that they can all be
> protected.  Time-limited protection would also be useful here, but I
> doubt this mitigates the disadvantages in other areas.
> 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toolserver/TStoc&diff=0&oldid=483075

I'm offline at the moment, so I can't remember exactly what it's called,
but I do recall that it looks through all the templates that are used -
or at least it would if the toolserver was working.

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