https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671
--- Comment #44 from Michael Zajac <[email protected]> 2010-07-22 13:38:19 CDT --- > The address element gives contact information for the author of the page. > Since wiki pages are, by their nature, not owned by anyone or authored by any > single person, it makes no sense for wikis. Off the top of my head, an address element could be appropriate in the following places: * In the page footer, for the Wikimedia button. * On a user page or user talk page, where a wiki user provides contact information about themself. * In any content page or section, or documentation page or section, or Wikiproject page or section where some user is acting as maintainer or steward for some info. I have seen hundreds of various examples in Wikipedia and Wiktionary. (E.g., Wikipedia's [[Template:Maintained]].) In the context of a wiki, a link to a user page or user talk page is appropriate content for the address element. > It > makes no sense in normal wiki pages, though, and should not be allowed by > default. What's a “normal” wiki page? This is general-purpose software. Allowing just what we need for Wikipedia will make all wikis look like Wikipedia. For goodness' sake, we have a million-definition multilingual dictionary with no dfn elements! Whitelisting HTML tags gives editors the opportunity to demonstrate demand by using them. Insisting that we don't whitelist tags because it is “anti-Wiki” is self-fulfilling. The whole point of Wikitext is to provide easy shortcuts, *without* artificially limiting editors. Yeah, it would be good to list more use cases. But this “we don't have it so it's not useful” argument is circular and by its nature unconvincing. Wikitext may be the world's most common way to generate HTML, and what we choose to allow in the software strongly affects what people will use, and not vice-versa. -- 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
