On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:35 PM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> More precisely, there is a bit of a technical reason: very simply, such a > repository would be itself a piece of software, and it was never completely > developed. > > There were some attempts to do it, with names such as "scary transclusion", > "shadow namespaces", and maybe others, but they were never completed, at > least not well enough for Wikimedia sites. There were issues of security, > caching, localization, and more. It's possible to resolve these issues, but > unfortunately it was never prioritized. > ^^ This ^^ Basically: nobody ever had the time to drive it to completion. There's no technical reason it couldn't be done. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
