On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > > Specifying wikitext-html conversion sounds like a MediaWiki 2.0 type of > > project (ie. wouldn't expect it to happen in this decade), and even then > it > > would not fully solve the problem[...] > > You seem to be suggesting that > 1. Specifying wikitext-html conversion is really hard > 2. It's not a silver bullet (i.e. it doesn't "fully solve the problem") > 3. HTML storage looks more like a silver bullet, and is cheaper > 4. Therefore, a specification is not really worth doing, or if it is, > it's really low priority > > Is that an accurate way of paraphrasing your email? > Yes. The main problem with specifying wikitext-to-html is that extensions get to extend it in arbitrary ways; e.g. the specification for Scribunto would have to include the whole Lua compiler semantics. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
