Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-24473195-20150527141750/@comment-24473195-20150527190732

Switching to wikia's default is not actually a bad idea, except that one of these wikipedia templates I imported brought with them a lot of these templates which make use of the new documentation template. My guess is that it would cause even more wanted pages. But it is something to consider doing eventually.

In my experience though, it is better to simply use a template to invoke a lua module even for a simple function, like the ones I added. But I understand that not everybody is interested or has the coding ability to convert parser functions, and some of them are currently impossible to replicate using lua.

Preventing more wanted pages is as simple as using a preloaded template, the problem is that checking if a page exists increments the expensive counter, although it is not generally a problem in the documentation pages.