On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:15 PM, BrianBrian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
<snip> > I really like the ParserFunctions example. Enabled with hardly any > discussion and now used 500,000 times on the English Wikipedia. It had a > major effect on Wikipedia that made it much harder to use. And now we are > stuck in a programming mindset and we all assume that we all agreed to come > here. It just isn't the case. You won't be able to find where that agreement > happened.
The initial parser functions were a replacement for {{qif}} and kin. The enwiki community had already adopted a significant degree of programming in template space.
The developer that abused templates so that qif could be written does not constitute a consensus. The conversations regarding programming on Wikipedia were extremely limited given their impact.