On 31 May 2010 23:37, Steve VanSlyck <[email protected]> wrote: >> (b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English >> Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every >> possible emergent side-effect for editor's use.
> ????? en:wp not only uses ridiculous contortions of wikitext routinely, it seems to iteratively explore the furthest reaches of stuff that the parser just *happens* to do then turn them into normal parts of editing. That's why new editors hit "edit" on en:wp, are confronted with what may as well be an uneditable binary and run away never to hit "edit" again [*]. - d. [*] possibly a slight exaggeration _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
