Thread:Tdt30/@comment-4102115-20120714051723/@comment-4935290-20120714160753

You are not considering the fact that in the future someone will need or want to change the way some calculations are done. For example, ezcry4ted spreadsheet includes calculations I don't agree, like take into account the energy (too many energy buildings with different data makes it impossible to have a formula imho). If it was a template I wouldn't dare try to contribute, I (and most people) wouldn't take many hours to understand how a template is done to start contributing. Spreadsheets are a lot easier to understand, help is more widely available and more important, a lot more people know how to use it compared to people who know an obscure wikimedia extension. If an user doesn't want to use a Google spreadsheet I can't image him/her taking the time to learn wikimedia templates. But even in this case the user can just ignore the Google spreadsheet and create their own way to calculate the data and post it here, I did that, you did that, no one is tied to a particular format.

And the templates will be complex if you want to include every case because some buildings don't use the default parameters. So in the future if the developers change any calculation or someone just wants to add a new data probably no one except you will be able to change the templates so no one will contribute. It's not only a theory, note the "Pages with the most editors in the last 7 days" lately. It used to have at least some pages with 5 or 6 editors, now the max is 2. So you are turning it from a wiki site that is somehow confuse and uneven (like any wiki) to a great site very organized and pretty but where only you contribute.