Thread:LadyAlys/@comment-665695-20150815074727/@comment-24150802-20150815094448

It's worth keeping in mind that when content is changed, it involves effort for more than just the person changing it. Everyone who is subscribed to notifications from the page being changed gets an email, those wiki editors who review content changes for quality control have an extra change to review, and, in the case of more advanced features such as some templates, editors who were familiar with the original system have to learn the new system.

These aren't necessarily reasons to not make changes of course, but changes that don't improve a page should be avoided, and editing a page just to insert or remove "Template:" might fall into that class of change.

To be honest, I shouldn't have reverted that "Template:" change today, based on that logic. I was focussing more on the ease of use for new editors.

I'm probably giving the impression that I don't like improvements to the wiki, and if I am, I am sorry about that. We do like improvements, including to templates, but it's often best to discuss proposed changes before starting work on them, so that different points of view can be considered. There were some interesting comments in the Wizards of the Wiki guild over the past day, from Taldin and others, about simplicity to make things easier for new wiki editors. That's an important consideration because in Habitica, contributing is considered to be something that's open to almost every player, and many players don't have much technical knowledge.

We also need to consider the different knowledge levels of players when it comes to presenting content on the wiki, and so some things that would be good for a highly technical or experienced audience might not work as well here. Discussions in the Wizards of the Wiki guild can help to identify issues like that.

Another consideration is that anything we do on this wiki has to be replicated on the translated wikis (currently German, French, Russian, and Spanish, with hopefully more in future). So, for example, a change to how templates are used on this wiki actually affects five wikis, and therefore might require significantly more work than might be apparent at first. This would also need to be considered before installing extensions (which I know you aren't pushing for, but it might be relevant in future).