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



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