Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24473195-20150624201317/@comment-24473195-20150719190930

Shining-Armor wrote: You can interwiki transclude hub templates and user page templates, that is it. You cannot transclude the dev template on Community Central on any other wiki. That would constitute a global transclusion and that puts too much strain on the server.

Doing this is strictly not allowed across the board. I wasn't even aware that would work let alone that it wasn't allowed, so I didn't even try. Although a staff once told me that that kind of staff is called scary transclusion for a "reason". Wikimedia still hasn't found a way to make it "less" scary with all their endless burocracy.

Anyway, what that template currently does is simply invoke a module that in turn invokes a global module (from dev.wiki). In essence it is doing exactly what the developers designed global module transclusion for, as far as I can tell.