I have a tool to migrate templates. If anyone has a particular wiki that needs templates migrating on an as needed basis, please let me know and I will be happy to help.
On 10 October 2014 02:57, Romaine Wiki <romaine.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lua makes editing templates for most users impossible. Perhaps the English > community has enough users to handle all edit requests for Lua templates, > most smaller wikis have too less users to do that. It is not just creating > a Lua template, but also that the local communities on various wikis need > to be able to maintain those templates when an update is needed or a > changed is wished for. Depending on other projects is a bad scenario which > is not an acceptable solution. > > I also do not see why it is considered easier... it is actually not easier. > The general rule which is applied for the wikis I am active is that almost > all templates should be editable by the majority of the community and we > should not rely on a small number of users with programming skills. And > learning an extra method for editing templates is the other way round, > which absolutely does not make editing templates easier but creates an > extra doorstep for users to do simple updates. > > Another general rule applied is KISS: if we can make it simple such is > recommended over a complex template with little or no extra functionality. > With a complex template, the first question to be asked is if a complex > template is really needed. In most cases it is not. Problem solved. > > Romaine > > > 2014-10-10 1:40 GMT+02:00 Matthew Flaschen <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>: > > > On 09/02/2014 03:27 PM, pi zero wrote: > > > >> The templates are extremely complicated in implementation, which is > >> irrelevant. If templates were rejected based on extremely complicated > >> implementation, that would rule out essentially everything that uses > >> Scribuntu under the hood. > >> > > > > I don't agree with this. Scribunto is a new language to learn (Lua), but > > that language is far easier for complicated work than parser functions > are > > for complicated work. > > > > Matt Flaschen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Landline (UK) 01780 757 250 Mobile (UK) 0798 1995 792 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
