2009/9/25 Brian <[email protected]>: > I am not here saying that it is a bad feature, not a bit. In fact I have > previously advocated on this list for the ability for users to specify > form-like interfaces. What I am saying is that I think it's premature. There > is a tradeoff that needs to be balanced here. It's easy to add new features > and hard to fix the old one. As we add new features however we diverse > farther and farther from the possibility of fixing wikitext. This is > especially when efforts to add new features are done entirely out of the > context of a clear strategy for eventually fixing wikitext. > > So before a feature such as this is implemented, or any new substantial > language is added to MediaWiki (such as ParserFunctions, or this interface > specification language), I would like to see work done on the Strategy wiki. > I don't think new work such as this should be done outside of the context of > a very clear vision of how we will eventually fix the whole problem. And I'm > entirely willing to help. You seem to be missing my point (or at least are not refuting it): if implemented properly, with the minimal assumptions I mentioned, subsequent reworking of wikitext *wouldn't* *matter*, because the template call editor could easily be ported to the 'new language' or whatever we end up with. It wouldn't put us any further away from fixing wikitext; the trade-off you mentioned does not exist IMO.
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