Are the XML specifications intended as?
A) A required addition to current and future templates
OR
B) An optional addition to aid / facilitate the functioning of some
advanced tools
The latter case seems far more achievable than the former case.
-Robert Rohde
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Roan Kattouw<roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/9/25
Brian<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>du>:
Also, I am quite serious about my point that an
entirely
new language interface specification will be added to MediaWiki and that it
will be widely adopted and propagate throughout the wikisphere, much like
parser functions, and in the end will make the job of fixing MediaWiki much,
much harder.
Whatever wikitext ends up becoming, it will probably still have
templates in some form. If the XML language is designed properly, it
won't make any assumptions about the current state of wikitext and
templates, other than that:
* there are such things as templates
* they accept parameters
* parameters can, but need not, have names, types, descriptions, etc.;
types may or may not be enforced
This very limited set of assumptions will hold in any language that
implements templates in a remotely sane way.
From what I have
heard, there was a meeting about how to solve this problem among core devs
and a few others at wikimedia headquarters, they decided what the solution
would be
That's news to me; I'd very much like to hear from these people
what
their proposed solution is.
, and now you guys are moving forward on
implementing it, totally
ignoring the strategy wiki.
You make it sound like we're just going ahead and doing this, totally
ignoring everyone else's opinions. Instead, we're proposing and
discussing it on this list to get input from other people. If you
think there's a more appropriate place to discuss this, just point us
there; don't go around blasting us because we failed to read your
mind.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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