Wikitech-l on behalf of Rob Lanphier wrote: >On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Legoktm <[email protected]> >wrote: >> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Principles > >The edit history of that page is telling.
Be bold. > It may be a little naive to hope [dogfooding] will somehow make our >software better at doing the thing it was designed to do when we try to >force it to do something it wasn't designed to do. What specifically are you arguing that MediaWiki was or was not designed to do? Please, go on. >>That said, MediaWiki categories can be pretty powerful, and then >>you can combine them with templates or things like DPL. We already have >>such a system set up for RfCs on mediawiki.org, I think making a similar >>template and set of categories for summit proposals would be easy. > >That seems like a lot of work where the time and effort is better spent >elsewhere. Another teaser here. What exactly is your vision for MediaWiki? Are you really suggesting in your reply that supporting yet another markup language is more important and a higher priority than having usable categorization and tagging systems? I'm genuinely curious where you think time and effort is best spent. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
