[WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures

[Steve Bennett]

On 6/5/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some form of the basic template that we use for {{user|Name}} and
> {{vandal|Name}} might also help.  Those templates are extremely compact on
> pages and yet allow you to pack a bunch of displayed info on pages.

Can you elaborate? Transcluding would be a huge performance hit.
Substing would put us back where we started. Do we really need all
those links? Surely user and talk are enough? No?

Steve