Transclude templates on Markdown pages by default

README.md

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ wikitext and Markdown (in both directions) via `Special:ChangeContentModel`.
 | `$wgNativeMarkdownEverywhere` | `false` | New pages everywhere default to Markdown, the "Markdown wiki" mode (see exclusions below) |
 | `$wgNativeMarkdownSuffixDetection` | `false` | New pages whose title ends in `.md` default to Markdown, in every namespace |
 | `$wgNativeMarkdownAllowExternalImages` | `false` | Embed external `![alt](url)` images; when off they render as plain links |
-| `$wgNativeMarkdownTemplateTransclusion` | `false` | Expand `{{template}}` calls on Markdown pages; when off they stay literal text (see [Template transclusion](#template-transclusion)) |
+| `$wgNativeMarkdownTemplateTransclusion` | `true` | Expand `{{template}}` calls on Markdown pages; set to `false` to leave them as literal text (see [Template transclusion](#template-transclusion)) |
 
 `$wgNativeMarkdownEverywhere` covers the whole prose wiki, but deliberately leaves some pages as wikitext: the
 discussion (Talk) namespaces, where signatures and threading depend on wikitext; the Template and MediaWiki
@@ -104,9 +104,8 @@ by core's `$wgMaxArticleSize`.
 
 ## Template transclusion
 
-By default `{{...}}` is literal text on a Markdown page. Set
-`$wgNativeMarkdownTemplateTransclusion = true` to expand template calls instead, so Markdown pages can reuse a
-wiki's shared infoboxes, citations and navboxes:
+Markdown pages transclude a wiki's shared infoboxes, citations and navboxes with the usual `{{...}}` syntax. Set
+`$wgNativeMarkdownTemplateTransclusion = false` to turn this off and leave `{{...}}` as literal text.
 
 ```markdown
 {{Infobox person

extension.json

@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
 			"value": false
 		},
 		"NativeMarkdownTemplateTransclusion": {
-			"description": "If MediaWiki template calls ({{...}}) on markdown pages should be transcluded. When false (default), they are literal text. Enabling this also enables parser functions and magic words inside the braces, as expansion delegates to the MediaWiki parser.",
-			"value": false
+			"description": "If MediaWiki template calls ({{...}}) on markdown pages should be transcluded (default). When false, they are literal text. Transclusion also enables parser functions and magic words inside the braces, as expansion delegates to the MediaWiki parser.",
+			"value": true
 		}
 	},