Last modified: 2014-06-02 11:51:22 UTC
Some modules currently transclude a template whose name depends on parameters received, such as Module:Documentation on enwiki. In these types of cases, the module has to call frame:expandTemplate, but this counts towards Lua's time limit. The change at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Documentation&diff=605027466&oldid=593265833 was made to work around this behavior. Since there's no time limit on preprocessing text or expanding templates from wikitext, I don't see why there needs to be one from Lua.
(In reply to Jackmcbarn from comment #0) > Since there's no time limit on preprocessing text or expanding > templates from wikitext, I don't see why there needs to be one from Lua. That's not exactly a good argument, since the Scribunto time limit is to avoid the situation we have with wikitext where pages will take minutes to parse.
It's not Lua's fault that it takes a long time to expand wikitext. This is intended to facilitate converting things a little at a time, the way the arguments change was. Is the Template:Documentation change really what we want to see everywhere?
