Hoi,
Let us please appreciate what is being said here: "Wikipedia is a horrible
place to copy templates from". We pride ourselves of being open source and
the current templates make us as bad as the worst proprietary vendor. We
have what is effectively an API and it is not documented at all.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/2/1 Daniel Friesen <[email protected]>
> ^_^ Wikipedia is already a horrible place to copy templates from. Unlike
> Wikipedia most other MW installations don't bother turning on Tidy, and
> Wikipedia abuses that /feature/ way to much.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com]
> -Nadir-Point (http://nadir-point.com)
> -Wiki-Tools (http://wiki-tools.com)
> -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.nadir-point.com)
> -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
> -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
> -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com)
>
>
>
> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Platonides <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> That would be like adding a dependancy on Lua extension for reusers, as
> >> the core templates will be implemented in Lua.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, that would be the major disadvantage I can see. In practice,
> > nobody can reuse large chunks of Wikipedia content on shared hosting
> > anyway, since it's way too big, but it would be a serious obstacle for
> > people who want to reuse only parts of Wikipedia.
> >
>
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