On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Brian<brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > <snip> > > I really like the ParserFunctions example. Enabled with hardly any > > discussion and now used 500,000 times on the English Wikipedia. It had a > > major effect on Wikipedia that made it much harder to use. And now we are > > stuck in a programming mindset and we all assume that we all agreed to > come > > here. It just isn't the case. You won't be able to find where that > agreement > > happened. > > The initial parser functions were a replacement for {{qif}} and kin. > The enwiki community had already adopted a significant degree of > programming in template space. The developer that abused templates so that qif could be written does not constitute a consensus. The conversations regarding programming on Wikipedia were extremely limited given their impact. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l