Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-3417079-20150626034226/@comment-452-20150711102217

That's the second time you've mentioned Wordpress.

Mediawiki != Wordpress, nor is it intended to be. There's a reason I choose to use Mediawiki instead of Wordpress, and if Mediawiki was more like Wordpress, I wouldn't want to use it either. Bruce A wrote:
 * If you like Wordpress better than Mediawiki, you're free to use a Wordpress site instead.
 * If you think Mediawiki should be more like Wordpress, you're free to suggest it to the Mediawiki devs.
 * If you think Wikia should ditch Mediawiki and use Wordpress, you're free to suggest it to Wikia.

showing it as an example so people can grok in their mind what it would look like when someone edits a page and gets that message. Anyone would cannot comprehend the basic concept that $1 will be replaced by the person's username should not be editing the welcome message in the first place.

I would have also added "If they can't handle the concept of $1, how are they ever going to handle anything more advanced in templates?", but you've already covered that in your final paragraph. Bruce A wrote:

Manuals and explanations are, for the most part, a sign that things weren't designed as well as they could have been. That's an interesting opinion which tells us a lot about you, thanks for sharing it, but I'm not sure I want to live in a world where everything is dumbed down to that point.