On 09/01/2014 12:57 PM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote:
> The *correct* solution is to make MV bail completely on pages it fails to
> parse, falling back to the known bad-but-sufficient behaviour, and maybe
> adding a hidden category unparsable by MV to the image, so that it can be
> addressed. If 10% of the effort spent on the long tail of template madness
> was spent on implementing "when in doubt, bail" much debate would have been
> unnecessary.

I don't think it's necessarily easy to even /detect/ that there is
something important that couldn't be parsed right; but this makes sense
to me indeed in principle.

-- Marc


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