Template talk:!

I've protected this template and I think we should protect other high usage templates. Editing this template causes the wiki to schedule jobs to reparse every page that uses it (you can see this on Special:Statistics, under job queue length). Since I decreased the rate of job execution it won't slow down the wiki as much as before, but it's still unnecessary server load. -- Nx  / talk 10:58, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Reminds me of the time I changed the link on the Template:Ken, the moment I clicked save page I thought this might not be a crash hot idea, it took about 20 to 30 seconds for the page to load. Given that experience, anything over 150? 11:30, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It won't cause that much of a slowdown since the jobs execute with every tenth page load since I changed it (back when I experienced a similar thing when editing the talkpage template) instead of with every page load. I think another important factor to consider is whether a non-sysop (or indeed anyone) would even need to edit the page. In the case of this one, that's a no. We should really make something like Wikipedia:Template:Template doc and start using it. -- Nx  / talk 11:42, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Deletable?
Since MediaWiki 1.24, {{!}} is a magic word, meaning this template could presumably be deleted. I don't want to risk that unless someone can confirm nothing would change though (plus it's not important anyway). If, please ping me by adding to your message, and signing it. —Kazitor, pending 12:13, 15 July 2018 (UTC)