Translations:Schools of thought concerning integration of extensions into the core/2/en

A major issue is whether adopting one standard will interfere with another. For example, adding a new special page or API module is unlikely to interfere with other desired functionalities. Changing how the parser renders wikitext might be a different matter. Then again, if such parser features were to be adopted by major WMF wikis such as Wikipedia, it would likely be adopted widely across the wikisphere since wikis would want to be able to have pages imported from Wikipedia render properly. So, some centralized standard-setting may be unavoidable. Perhaps a good rule of thumb is that if wikis will need the extension (e.g. Extension:ParserFunctions or Extension:Cite) in order to properly render pages imported from Wikipedia, then the extension might as well be bundled with the installer or integrated into the core, because almost everyone is going to end up installing it on their wikis anyway.