On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:02 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 August 2010 17:11, Liangent <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8/11/10, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Or keep the old parser around to deal with old revisions. Revisions that >>> work >>> with the new parser can be flagged as such. > >> This made me think of Quirks mode in browsers. >> We can make the new parser (and standardized wikitext syntax) more >> strict by treating many edge cases as errors, and if the new parser >> detected any error when parsing, use the old parser instead. > > > If Tim will buy it :-) The non-quirks mode had better cover *almost > all* current revisions on the major WMF wikis, at the least. (The most > recent current version dumps would be suitable test data.)
Do we have a short list of "worst case scenario" pages, which use lots of special cases for some reason, and that we could use as a test set? Not something specially constructed, but real, live wikipedia pages. Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
