Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24473195-20150624201317/@comment-24473195-20150720072929

Cqm wrote: 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 which 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. My question is whether global modules don't have the same drawbacks as global templates and wikia is maybe just hoping that they will never be widely used, so it will never cause serious performance issues.

Also, that page indicates that it is outdated, so one would wonder which parts of it are right and which aren't.

Now that I think of it, theoretically, if we move a lot of templates from somewhere and store them here, we could simply use frame:preprocess to have access to all templates here in the same way that they are accessible from community central. Although there'll be a performance hit, I guess.