[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

Fri Jan 6 17:31:06 UTC 2006

Anthere wrote:
> Technical idea : limit the number of templates on a page ?

I don't think it would help. The first 'solution' would be a pyramid 
scheme... if you can only call five templates then the userpage would 
call five template pages... which would each call five template pages... 
et cetera.

So then we start cracking down on that (it's meta-templating)... and 
some clever person eventually realizes that there is no reason 
whatsoever that each userbox has to be a separate template. You could 
include every userbox on wikipedia into a single template call. That 
might limit the order in which they appear, but I think that could be 
worked out as well.