https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19298
--- Comment #17 from Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> 2009-06-22 11:05:29 UTC --- I think the entire discussion is horribly off target. Nobody wants to "install Lua" or "install StringFunctions". The three real use cases why I originally subscribed to the first bug were: - Simplify templates like FormatDate that transform "2009-06-22" into anything without the weird math behind it so that it can be understood (and edited! It's a wiki! Or at least should be.) again by "normal" users who do not want to solve puzzles, but problems. - Simplify templates like the geographical coordinates manglers that use large switches at the moment to group "US-WA" under "US". (I really doubt that these are more performant than an adequate StringFunctions usage.) - Allow to test whether a parameter ends with a "." so that the template can decide whether it has to append one by itself. How these (and others) are solved, with a generic Lua extension, or StringFunctions that can only be used by sysops, or one-purpose-only extensions, I do not care. But I do not think that a potential threat of abuse should stand in the way of good use. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
