Which community should be consulted on this technical
decision? What if
enwiki wants prolog and dewiki wants lua and enwikitionary wants
javascript? Occasionally technical decisions have to be made by the
developers. The templating language is a technical decision. It's really
not something that is up for editor community debate.
This decision was hashed out over months (really a couple of years if we
consider the original iteration of this idea) with the developer
community. If the editor community wishes to take part in these kinds of
decisions, they should join wikitech-l.
Most lay users likely won't be able to understand the discussions that
take place on wikitech-l. Hell most lay users don't even know it exists.
While I won't weigh in on whether or not the choice of Lua was our
decision to make or not, I don't think that the argument that editors
should join wikitech-l is a good one.
Perhaps the ambassadors mailing list? But wikitech-l? No.
I am curious though to see if we ever even mentioned this idea to the
editors on at least enwiki though. I think such knowledge would greatly
help everyone else here in evaluating whether or not we included the
community enough on this decision.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott