https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6455
--- Comment #139 from Ted Kandell <[email protected]> 2011-12-31 03:40:25 UTC --- Finally, some common sense here. There are a huge number of templates that now do pretty much everything. My personal interest is in displaying trees and phylogenies. These are incredibly hard to edit now, not even worth it. I've tried to edit genealogical trees, and have given up, because the "presentation" is mixed up with the data. My browser would crash before I could even get part of it right by repeated experimentation. "Expensive"? All of these "hoops" that everyone has to go though to validate templates without any sort of parser functions really has a collective impact on MediaWiki and Wikipedia. "NO solution" is much much worse than a an attempt at a "bad solution". I don't think anyone even realizes the *lack* of editing by knowledgeable people that is taking place, because of the sheer difficulty in editing data that is not text or inline images. There's a price here, and it isn't whether "this or that implementation of trim()" regular expressions is more or less efficient. It's been 5 1/2 years since this bug was first opened. Maybe someone can get moving on it before a decade has passed? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
