Hi,
On 05/24/2010 04:44 PM, Peter17 wrote:
It is now open for comments, so, could you please read it and let me know about your remarks and suggestions, on this list and/or on the talk page?
first of all, I let me tell you that I'm really excited about this project. It may very well revolutionize the way we organize templates on Wikimedia and also other wiki farms.
Some notes: 1. You propose a shared database. If I interpret this correctly, it only works inside a wiki set on the same server farm and doesn't include external wikis. For example, English Wikipedia could transclude templates from Meta Wiki, but not from Wikia. In contrast, $wgForeignFileRepos works for external Wikis (which is much better).
2. Parsing the wikitext at the home wiki makes it more difficult to use site magic words, e.g. {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}. You'd have to pass one each and everyone as a template parameter (e.g. {{homewiki::templatename|lang={{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}}})
Kind regards,
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