Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's not about "Wikipedia content", but about being able to grab things
>> you see on another wiki and use or adapt them to your own needs. We get
>> lots of questions from people trying to grab some particular template
>> off Wikipedia to use on their own site for their own needs.
> 
> Sure.  The point still holds.  Some third parties would be unable to
> use Wikipedia templates, yes.  But given the tangle of dependencies
> the major ones have, and how complicated they are, I'm guessing most
> small third-party wikis don't bother in the end anyway.

That's why we want to fix it! :)

It *should* be fairly trivial to fetch a template/plugin sort of thing 
off of one wiki and put it on another. Consider this as one of our goals 
for next-gen templating.

-- brion

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