https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26092
Summary: Enable or install string parsing wikimarkup
functionality on WMF wikis
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Site requests
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
It is blatantly obvious that *some* form of string parsing functionality is
needed on WMF wikis - this is most clearly demonstrated by [[Category:String
manipulation templates]], an entire category dedicated to horrible abuses of
currently-enabled markup to allow such functionality. However, developers have
repeatedly stated that StringFunctions is not going to happen (bug 6455), which
leaves only the option of enabling some actual programming language.
It has been suggested that much of the functionality being performed by
templates should instead be moved to extensions, and while this may be true,
turning template functionality into an extension should be the last step, not
the first (or, rather, it can only work as the last step, and that's assuming
there's even sufficient inertia to pursue the functionality through the
extension's development, testing, and deployment; see bug 14207 and bug 15308
for a significant case of there not being such inertia).
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