On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
An explicit list of exemptions could reasonably grow to very large and it would need to be scanned for membership every time a page is parsed. I would be somewhat surprised if there were not >1000 meta-categories already. Go look at how __NOTOC__ works, that would be the most logical way of doing this in mediawiki. Thoughts?
I'm not pushing a big page over a __NOTOC__ type syntax (yes, I know what it is too). But with a big page we would get protection capabilities, which we would not have with a parser extension. That was the primary argument behind that suggestion. It depends whether we value protection of the noindex system more or maintainability of the list more.