Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-45310000-20200418011510/@comment-45310000-20200422170028

Just as a follow up, I have learned the following:


 * Even if I could transclude the metadata for an object in the file system, operating on this would not be wise, because string functions in the TemplateParser are crippled, and rightfully so, to prevent DoS attacks.
 * No TemplateParser extension exists that returns simple metadata from a File: object. There is the Lua MediaWika extension for Scribunto, not available at Fandom, which has functions that do exactly what I want.  However this seems a rather extreme way to get this information, considering that Lua is not yet a standard extension to MediaWiki.

I have taken my strong objection to way all this stuff works to the MediaWiki site.