On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 5:35 AM John Lewis <j...@hyperbolicinnovation.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 12:59 +0000, Chad wrote: > > 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 > > What license would make sense to distribute templates under? > > I would assume something Create Commons so as to be most compatible with Wikimedia wikis, but that's a trivial implementation detail. -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
