the new version of langprefix
Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua
Yes, I did that for performance reasons. Xyzy is a slow template, so bypassing it makes pages a whole lot faster. I used it on a lot of "high-profile" templates like {{t}}
and {{l}}
that do not benefit from the italics for English terms (the only reason why one would use Xyzy over that). And I see that you reverted it, in the case of l.
I doubt that.
I could well imagine that [[water]] is made faster by micro-optimizations like this, but it's not representative, and we shouldn't make Wiktionary-wide design decisions based on it.
(If need be, we can just take a DUDES ALREADY KNOW ABOUT CHICKENS approach to that entry.)