Brian wrote: > This round the Usability Initiative got 800,000 dollars. That's a load of > money. If the Foundation decides that it wants to fix the problem the > correct way then it can. And it can start at any time! We just need to agree > on a solution. > > We can't fix the problem by looking backwards at the wikitext that has > already been produced along with the language definition (5,000 lines of > parser code) and saying that the problem is simply intractable. In fact, the > problem does not depend in any way on the quantity of wikitext that has been > produced - it only depends on an understanding (if not a definition) of the > language as it currently exists. Hard work but not, at all, impossible. > ... > > * wikitext parsing would be much faster if the language was well defined and > we could use flex/bison/etc...
Have you read the archives? It has been tried. Several times. There's even a mailing list for that. Getting a formal definition of ~90% of the wikitext syntax is easy. The other 10% drived nuts everyone trying to do it hard enough, so far. Keep trying, but build over what's already done. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
