Re: [MediaWiki-l] No central repository for templates?

2018-01-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
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 co

Re: [MediaWiki-l] No central repository for templates?

2018-01-12 Thread Sam Wilson
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, at 9:21 AM, John Lewis wrote: > Help:Templates says that there is no central repository for templates. > Is there a technical reason for that? No technical reason against such a thing, I think, so much as that templates are very often quite site-specific and tied in to things

[MediaWiki-l] No central repository for templates?

2018-01-12 Thread John Lewis
Hello everyone, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates Help:Templates says that there is no central repository for templates. Is there a technical reason for that? ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

[MediaWiki-l] Using MediaWiki to front-end a log server?

2018-01-12 Thread John Lewis
Hello everyone, Has anyone use MediaWiki plus Cargo or SMW to act as a fronted-end to a SQL based log aggregation sever? It would be trivial to access and mix historical data and notes about servers with that kind of setup. If someone has already made this as a product or a project, this is your