2009/1/11 Brian <[email protected]>: > I believe that the introduction of ParserFunctions to MediaWiki was not done > with community consensus and has led to an extremely fast devolution in > wiki syntax. Further, the usability of Wikipedia has declined at a rate > proportional to the adoption of parser functions. > > Is there *anybody* on this list that is willing to say that this is more > usable than what we had before? > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox&action=raw
>From the POV of what you find in articles yes (the horrid multi template infoboxes we used to have). From the POV of not having a template with a secondary function as a doomsday button yes (Template:Qif). Remember a lot of ParserFunctions was not new functionality per se but providing a better way to do stuff people had already worked out how to do with existing functions. So yes going by how widely template:qif was deployed there was consensus among those who deal with these things that such functions should exist. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
