----- Original Message ----- > From: "Amgine" <[email protected]>
> Oliver Keyes: I do not believe anyone is disputing your general > arguments, above. > > The concern I see being expressed, fundamentally, is "I have developed > skills, practices, and efficiencies with current Wiki syntax. Is your > new parser going to destroy my investments in learning? am I going to > have to start over with this new system?" Correct, and it isn't merely investments in learning; there are likely investments in wrap-around-the-outside coding which assume access to markup as well. Not All Mediawikiae Are Wikipedia. Our point, as I share Oliver's concerns, which I think you rephrase well, is that raw markup access is just as important -- if not moreso -- to a subset of users of Mediawiki which is likely smaller than the Wikipedia editor base, but still significant. (How significant, I don't have numbers for, and I'm not sure such numbers can actually be generated...) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
