Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13301-20170502181922/@comment-35.20.173.109-20170503200426

Technobliterator wrote:

35.20.173.109 wrote:

if staff truly wants to take over all aspects of the wiki  plantation, they are free to do so and at the cost of editors simply giving up. if the goal is to eliminate the wikis for something else, they are best to simply notify to give us time to leave with full database and image dumps. These are ridiculous conspiracy theories and totally irrelevant to the discussion, not that I ever understood the "q_q staff are taking over infoboxes" argument anyway when PIs are just as customizable as non-PIs while being much better at loading and not requiring users to spend hours coding a metatemplate. Seems like a worthwhile sacrifice for something far more beneficial to the communities who can't code their own metatemplate and even better to those who can. rediculous conspiracy theory, what a joke. that is based off trends from before and adds up, i have no idea what the end goal is but from the looks of it doesn't involve a whole lot with wikis; that i can tell you. I'm also sure that PI is acceptable when its BREAKING templates on pages as of current. not to mention as Fandyllic said, you won't be able to reconstruct like for like replacements. either way, we have moved from wikitext which was standard mediawiki to now XML tags (call it what you want).

if staff wish to claim this is limited to one community, not many are going to buy that explaination as they could just arbitrarily extend it to whatever other wikis they wish to force this upon.