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
> >
> >
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