On 1/22/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
That's the sort of thing I mean by fixing the plumbing but avoiding changing the interface (the top-level templates you drop into an article to put in an infobox). People will complain about a change to the visible templates they use, but adding features to the plumbing underneath shouldn't create a fuss if they don't break stuff - any more than all the horrors^Wwonders possible with parser functions broke old wikitext.
Indeed, but for the infobox question we will probably need to upgrade every faucet (though they will initially have the same appearance) in order to reap the benefits of the new plumbing. Then when a problem arises which is common to all infoboxes we may be able to fix it in one edit.
—C.W.