On 04/06/2009, at 8:03 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > I would like to note for the record that Brion explicitly "endorsed" > the padleft hack to the degree that he re-enabled it after Werdna had > removed it. [1] > > Maybe he'd change his mind after looking at how the "string > manipulation templates" are actually getting used (now in >20,000 > enwiki pages and counting), but for the moment he seems to have > supported allowing some form of hacked together string manipulation > system into Mediawiki. To that end it makes more sense to have a real > string implementation rather than the ridiculous templates we have > now.
I wouldn't read that into it. I think it's better characterised as reverting attempts to create an "arms race" over the hacks. -- Andrew Garrett Contract Developer, Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] http://werdn.us _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
