[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

[Chris Jenkinson]

Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 1/6/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Good idea.  Is there some way this can be done on a per-namespace
>>>basis, though?  A lot of Wikipedia: pages (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Template
>>>messages]]) transclude a lot of templates; the use of {{tl}} has also
>>>become quite pervasive, both in Wikipedia: and in Talk:
>>
>>{{tl}} should be substituted.
> 
> 
> Does it work when substituted now?  I know there were some issues with
> that before.
> 
> In any case, if we were to do this, we would need a bot to go through
> and substitute the massively-used shorthand templates: {{tl}},
> {{user}}, {{vandal}}, {{admin}}, etc.

The point of these templates is that they are short and simple to use. 
If they are subst:'d in, they become more complicated. Why do we need to 
do this?

Chris

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