> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Dmitriy Sintsov
> Sent: 25 September 2009 07:01
> To: Wikimedia developers
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal for editing template calls
> within pages
>
> * Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> [Thu, 24 Sep 2009
> 15:40:46 -0400]:
> > Templates and refs are by far the worst offenders, for
> sticking tons
> > of content in the page that doesn't have any obvious
> relationship to
> > the actual content. Getting rid of them would be a huge
> step forward.
> > But stuff like '''bold''' and ==headings== are also a real
problem.
> What's complex in '''bold''' and ==headings== ? Here when
> we've installed the wiki for local "historical records" at
> the local Russian university the humanitarians got to
> understand such things really quickly. The Ms or PhD in
> History cannot be that much stupid.. To me it looks like you
> are overstating the complexity of the wikitext. But yes, they
> are calling technical staff for complex cases, but it happens
> _rarely_. Historical records are mostly just plain text with
> links and occasional pictures.
The problem is the ambiguity with italics, (''italics''). So the
current parser doesn't really make its final decision on what should
be bold or what should be italic until it hits a newline. If there are
an even number of both bold and italics then it assumes it interpreted
the line correctly.
However if there is an uneven number of bold & italic, it starts
searching for where it could have misinterpreted something.
I think this is part of what makes wikitext undescribable in a formal
grammar.
Jared
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