Hi, Thanks for your message. I think it is honest and useful.
2014-09-01 20:40 GMT+05:30 Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org>: ... > > MV is a perfect example. 99% of the problems it objectively has (we > ignore here matters of taste) derive from the difficulty of parsing the > multitude overcomplicated templates living on File: pages to work around > the fact that a wikitext page is complete and utter crap at storing > metadata. It's not an argument against MV, it's an argument for getting > rid of the horrid way we handle File: pages with ad-hoc workarounds. > The *correct* solution is to fix the damn image pages, not to remove MV. OK, I could buy that. But then why not fixing that *first*, so that any MV implementation coming afterwards would be smooth? > How is it that the old saying goes? "'We've always done things this > way' is the most dangerous statement in any language?" > > -- Marc Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
