Subramanya Sastry wrote: >Some user pages seem to exploit this as a feature even (unclosed div >tags).
Not just some and not just seem. :-) Thank you for this detailed e-mail. John Mark Vandenberg wrote: >The main reason for a spec should be the sanity of the Wikimedia >technical user base, including WMF engineers paid by donors, who build >parsers in other languages for various reasons, including supporting >tools that account for a very large percent of the total edits to >Wikimedia and are critical in preventing abuse and assisting admins >performing critical tasks to keep the sites from falling apart. In fairness, there's a Parsing team at the Wikimedia Foundation. We all recognize that there's a problem and I think we're making decent progress toward better defined, though not necessarily saner, behavior. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
