[p2p-research] P2P Foundation page Category:Commons has been changed by Mbauwens

[Alex Rollin]

Category pages are great for collecting together a couple of hundred
links automatically, but even collecting the highlights for the
category could be done in other ways.  This is a step in that
direction, allowing us to make focus pages that collect information
from lots of locations without the editing hassle, and leaving some
choice to the article owner about what is included, which I think is
very neat.  The behavior is by design, and is a distributed approach.

A

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michel Bauwens wrote:
>> you change the page, you change all the places
>> where the template is listed, regardless of context,
>
> I don't care what you decide, but you may want to
> know this is considered a 'feature', not a 'bug'.
>
> Most all programming languages use this approach
> through techniques such as #include and/or macros
> because it makes maintenance much easier - when a
> typo is fixed, it is fixed in all places the text occurs.
>
> The copy/paste approach is considered bad policy
> because, to be thorough, every edit is incomplete until
> you search the entire codebase to find all other places
> that must be updated.
>