Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Global scripts/Scope creep/reply (3)

Indeed James, so true that I think "global templates" implies "global modules" automatically. :)

Thanks MZ, much clearer now. "Shadow namespaces" are what was proposed as "global namespaces" in 2012 by Rd232, tracked at T66474.

I still think that some serious testing of scary transclusion should come first, because we have no real evidence that it's still problematic: in fact, there are wikisource domains which are already doing crosswiki transclusion via terrible hacks and it still works rather well.

In addition, I'd take out of this the things which work rather well simply by HTML transclusion (as DoubleWiki does too, more or less), in particular user pages. Lego's work on Extension:GlobalUserPage can be put into use very soon and doesn't need rethinking.