2009/9/25 Brian <[email protected]>: > Also, I am quite serious about my point that an entirely > new language interface specification will be added to MediaWiki and that it > will be widely adopted and propagate throughout the wikisphere, much like > parser functions, and in the end will make the job of fixing MediaWiki much, > much harder. Whatever wikitext ends up becoming, it will probably still have templates in some form. If the XML language is designed properly, it won't make any assumptions about the current state of wikitext and templates, other than that:
* there are such things as templates * they accept parameters * parameters can, but need not, have names, types, descriptions, etc.; types may or may not be enforced This very limited set of assumptions will hold in any language that implements templates in a remotely sane way. > From what I have > heard, there was a meeting about how to solve this problem among core devs > and a few others at wikimedia headquarters, they decided what the solution > would be That's news to me; I'd very much like to hear from these people what their proposed solution is. > , and now you guys are moving forward on implementing it, totally > ignoring the strategy wiki. You make it sound like we're just going ahead and doing this, totally ignoring everyone else's opinions. Instead, we're proposing and discussing it on this list to get input from other people. If you think there's a more appropriate place to discuss this, just point us there; don't go around blasting us because we failed to read your mind. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
