Beside being way more effort than it is worth, what is particularly
Lovecraftian about that?
Cheers,
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martijn Hoekstra" <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass
(was: Visual Editor)
On Jul 30, 2013 3:49 AM, "Marc A. Pelletier" <m...@uberbox.org> wrote:
On 07/29/2013 07:00 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Are there any wikitext constructions that are actually going to be
> deprecated?
I'm not privy to the architecture decisions, but I'm pretty sure that
the absolute worst monstrosity is the possibility of opening markup in a
(possibly deeply recursive or, worse, conditional) template that is
closed in a different template
I can dream up horrors you can't even imagine. Consider a template
consisting if two single quotes. For a demonstration, see
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Martijn_Hoekstra/Lovecraftian_horror2
Getting it rid of /just/ that would
lose us no content (though it would break some frankenstein-grade
markup) and gain us a couple orders of magnitude in parsoid reliability
and simplicity.
And probably would make most of the VE team cry in relief.
-- Marc
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