[Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

[geni]

2009/1/11 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> I believe that the introduction of ParserFunctions to MediaWiki was not done
> with community consensus and has led to an extremely  fast devolution in
> wiki syntax. Further, the usability of Wikipedia has declined at a rate
> proportional to the adoption of parser functions.
>
> Is there *anybody* on this list that is willing to say that this is more
> usable than what we had before?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox&action=raw

>From the POV of what you find in articles yes (the horrid multi
template infoboxes we used to have). From the POV of not having a
template with a secondary function as a doomsday button yes
(Template:Qif).

Remember a lot of ParserFunctions was not new functionality per se but
providing a better way to do stuff people had already worked out how
to do with existing functions.

So yes going by how widely template:qif was deployed there was
consensus among those who deal with these things that such functions
should exist.


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geni