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.
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