Translations:Global templates/Taxonomy/131/en

Some advanced formatting and content types are implemented as MediaWiki extensions, for instance math and chemistry formulas, musical notation, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and timelines. This makes it possible to reuse them equally across all wikis and languages, and to insert and edit them using the Visual editor toolbar. There is nothing inherently different between Egyptian hieroglyphics and IPA, for example—both content types could be implemented as templates or as extensions, and they were implemented as they were for arbitrary historical reasons: The person who wanted to add Egyptian hieroglyphics support knew PHP and decided to do it that way, and the first person who wanted to add IPA did it using a template because it seemed simple.