See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150417
On 21 December 2016 at 21:42, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > I sympathize with the goal but accessibility benefits would be far > outweighed by maintaince costs. We regularly use grep to find code which is > about to be deprecated; wikis copy gadgets from each other; more > experienced developers are sometimes asked to help a wiki where the local > maintainers have less experience. We have a whole global user group for > people who go from wiki to wiki and fix things. > > And that's not even taking into account the implementation costs, which > would probably be massive if it includes stuff like localizing > Lua/Javascript language keywords. The Wikimedia community collectively has > a lot of experience with web development but not a whole lot of experience > with programming language compiler development. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
