On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: >> In practice it is very rare to have a ref be placed inside the content >> of another ref, so the problem of nested refs will almost never come >> up, but it is something to be aware of if one is considering any mass >> effort to relocate refs inside the references block. > > Hmm, doesn't seem completely unbelievable...I won't contrive an > example now, but I can imagine one. > > But anyway can a bot detect these cases and just ignore them?
Yes, the nested ref syntax is sufficiently weird that it shouldn't be too hard to train a bot to recognize and ignore those cases. Of course, you'd also have to build consensus for any project to mass move refs. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
