On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Trevor Parscal wrote: >> >>> * The topic is supposed to be on Template Editing which is, at least >>> in the way it's being proposed, a little less of a stale topic - >>> so where is all the energy on that front? We have an XML format to >>> design and complex problems to sort out. Help is really needed. >>> Let's all take a look at the link provided at the beginning of >>> this thread http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_forms >>> >>> - Trevor >> >> >> I do think that sufficient energy has been directed at this topic. People >> have complained that xml is harder to edit that wikitext and that it is too >> complicated, among other things. > > I think this is an important point. > > XML is hard to edit. That's the reason wikitext was created, to "fix" > the issues with the, even easier, html. > Now, it is being proposed to add a XML processing on top of wikitext to > describe templates.
<snip> Unless expressly forbidden by the software implementation, I would assume that "helpful" Wikipedians would very quickly write template description templates to replace the XML and give it a "nice" wiki interface. So, in practice, the question of whether XML is hard to edit will probably be moot and reduced solely to the issue that templates are hard to edit. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
