On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 12:59 +0000, Chad wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:35 PM Amir E. Aharoni <
> [email protected]> 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?

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