https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50882
--- Comment #5 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #2) > The problem here is not specifically "stub templates", but the general idea > that some items of content - in this case, on one wiki, a sub-type of > template that is trivially-identifiable to humans but not necessarily so for > software - should have its own special ordering when the page is > re-serialised. The explanation for why this (relatively new?) policy change > for enwiki seems to be absent [...] This practice has been documented at [[WP:LAYOUT]] for at least a few years. It's been standard practice since before then. There's a note in the current version of that document that explains that it's due to a battle with bots (notable AutoWikiBrowser, as I recall). Because most people add stub categories with AWB or similar scripts, the conventions those tools use become (or rather, became) wiki conventions. I agree with the general point that we should move this type of information (whether a page is a stub and if so, what kind of stub) to a metadata area. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
