BoyWiki:Agora/24 April 2015

Agora/24 April 2015

Wanted templates

We have a backlog in Special:WantedTemplates. This contributes to further backlogs, since we don't have pages in need of cleanup in the proper categories, which would help facilitate cleanup work. Can we safely assume at this point that Scribunto will never be installed (despite the fact that the security concerns were addressed at mediawikiwiki:Extension_talk:Scribunto#Security_concerns_55170)? If so, we'll need to come up with our own templates rather than copying them from Wikipedia. So, what style do you want to use? Basically derivatives of Template:Cleanup, or something else? Lysander (talk) 22:33, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

I am open to innovation so long as it looks good and works (and is not too difficult for wiki beginners) We can't make things too complicated. --Etenne (talk) 00:17, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Is it worth investing time in creating these non-Scribunto templates to substitute for what Wikipedia implements using Scribunto, or is another attempt going to be made to get the wiki council to approve Scribunto? Lysander (talk) 03:30, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

The Wiki council has already made it's decision about Scribunto and they are not going to revisit it. Some battles are winnable and some are not. --Etenne (talk) 11:20, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

I have been working on templates for the last week or so and I have looked over a bunch of these Lua templates. I admit that having Scribunto would make it easier to add certain templates. However, I am also glad we decided not to go in that direction, at least for now. That is a very complicated programing language and far beyond the ability of the average BoyWiki users, who often have difficulty with basic wiki code. I am not even sure I would be able to learn to edit in Lua. --Etenne (talk) 12:40, 13 June 2015 (UTC)