On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Tyler, > Many of these issues have already been discussed on this mailing list. Read > Rob and Tim's emails from last week to start with. As explained in the > previous emails, the extension being deployed is Scribunto. Regarding > performance testing, Rob said this would be done once the extension was > deployed to mediawiki.org: "From there, we'll need some time figuring out > the performance characteristics of this (making sure we're actually coming > out ahead) as well as converting some key templates over." Many of the > other questions are covered at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto. > > And not to be overly dismissive, but the idea that Tim needs to prove that > en.wiki wants this feature is absurd. The template system on Wikipedia is > BROKEN. It takes over 30 seconds for the parser to render large articles, > and articles with a really large number of citation templates can't render > at all, they simply error with a timeout. The only reason Lua/Scribunto was > developed is because the en.wiki community has been vocally complaining > about this problem FOR 3 YEARS. Check out > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19262 for example. > > Ryan Kaldari >
Furthermore, mediawiki.org is a community essentially owned by the developers, not to mention this feature is non-user facing. If people don't want to use it, they don't have to. I do believe consensus should be sought when enabling extensions like moodbar and what not on enwikipedia, but this is nothing like that situation. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
