On 1/22/08, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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.