On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:00 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any wikitext constructions that are actually going to be > deprecated?
We don't know yet. We try to support almost everything. In addition to the unbalanced templates that Marc mentions, there are templates that literally insert individually meaningless bits of markup (e.g. style="color:#ccc;'' class="foo"|Bar, which is partially table markup and partially CSS) into another context like a table or image thumbnail syntax. Especially when talking about widely used templates, we try to support those constructions in Parsoid -- but if community members are open to changing templates and/or template-invoking pages, that will help at least in the short term. We do try to provide information to this effect in bug reports. And yes, these kinds of uses of templates do make the devs cry. If you listen closely when it's quiet and still, you can hear them wail. In the long run, we may have to announce some markup as deprecated, and some of the crazier template uses seem likely candidates. At some point when we switch to the new parser, it would then just stop behaving as with the current MediaWiki parser implementation, with appropriate warning. We're still a long way from that, though. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>