On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Pavel Tkachenko <[email protected]>wrote:
> I even think templates should only be
> created by devs after discussion, otherwise it results in what we see
> now.
>
You can't be serious. Half the useful work at I do at en.wikipedia is
template coding, to do all sorts of useful things. If I had to apply though
some anal process of developer supplication to get something like {{Shamos
1999}} or {{Rp}} or {{Cue sports nav}} set up, I would simply quit the
project. I don't mean that in a histrionic WP:DIVA way, I mean it would
just frustrate me too much to not be able to fix things, expediently, that
need to be fixed and which have to do with usage of the tools and writing a
wiki, not with the underlying coding of the tools themelves. It's
exceedingly presumptuous of developers of tools to suggest they should be
in control of how people use the tools and work internally around their
limitations. Which are often severe (see {{bq}} and {{gloss}}, especially
the latter's subpage of test cases showing how awful MW's parsing of
definition lists is when not overridden with explicit HTML). Note: All of
what I'm referring to is at en.wikipedia.org.
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