2009/7/1 Brian <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:19 PM, stevertigo<[email protected]> wrote: >> You provide no context > > The title says it all - MediaWiki is getting a new programming language.
That doesn't even mention the word "template", which is what the whole discussion is about. >> (more to the point) you gave no indication that the techies actually want >> non-technical input. > > The fact that the "techies" do not actively seek out community input > is why we ended up with ParserFunctions. Furthermore these changes are > supposed to be 'community' decisions. The 'techies' are also not the > people who edit Wikipedia articles the most. They write code, fix > servers etc... ParserFunctions were implemented because there was a demand for them. One of the greatest strengths and also the greatest weaknesses of the way MediaWiki is developed is that there is very little top-down direction and people just get on and do what seems like a good idea. That results in a lot of quick fixes, like ParserFunctions, which means features that are high in demand get implemented quickly but it also means that the solutions are often far from optimal. I don't see how any of that would be fixed by community discussion. I'm not even sure what community would discuss it - the core Mediawiki code is used by far more than just the English Wikipedia (or even the whole of the Wikimedia movement). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
