Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4189499-20160701065354/@comment-24473195-20160701102151

Here's an example that works, see also this: "Why on earth would we want syntax highlighting in wikitext, where it is just a nuisance that clutters the page, but force it to be linked to syntax highlighting in CSS and JS, where it's actually useful?"

Well, because it was also showing up in the template namespace for portable infoboxes, and since some people complained, and it wasn't always working properly a more consistent approach was used to disable it all. Although it could also be a bug, you may want to check with staff.

"I haven't even heard of WikiData before." Well, unfortunately that Wikidata (Wikibase) tool and most other DB tools can only be used in newer mediawiki versions, wikia can't support it even if they wanted without upgrading.

Generally speaking lua will be way faster than wikitext templates.