[WikiEN-l] Re: userbox : insanity ?

Fri Jan 6 17:38:25 UTC 2006

On 1/6/06, Chris Jenkinson <chris at starglade.org> wrote:
> >>{{tl}} should be substituted.
> >
> >
> > Does it work when substituted now?  I know there were some issues with
> > that before.
> >
> > In any case, if we were to do this, we would need a bot to go through
> > and substitute the massively-used shorthand templates: {{tl}},
> > {{user}}, {{vandal}}, {{admin}}, etc.
>
> The point of these templates is that they are short and simple to use.
> If they are subst:'d in, they become more complicated. Why do we need to
> do this?

Benefit to the servers.  Avoidable use of templates should be avoided,
and substitution is an easy way of doing that.  Creating slightly ugly
code is unfortunate but inevitable.

--
Sam