[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

[Kirill Lokshin]

On 1/6/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
> 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?

Because otherwise they won't work, given that they tend to be used
many times on a single page.

This entire discussion, of course, assumes that limiting the number of
templates expanded per page is actually something that may take place.

Kirill Lokshin