Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24473195-20150624201317/@comment-11733175-20150720064112

I fixed a link to w:Template:Dev above, to avoid any confusion when you get redirected to Templates Wiki.

To add a comment to the discussion about creating global templates, user page templates are often transcluded from community central (and have been for years). As far as I know, it's never used for article templates, likely because articles are edited more often and thus add more stress to the servers than a normal user page. It uses a completely different system to global modules which relies on wikia specific code and is similar to how the central help page repository works.

There's some notes about the template transclusion on mw:Manual:$wgEnableScaryTranscluding if anyone's interested too.