Brian wrote:
Mark, Keep in mind regarding my Semantic drum beating that I am not a developer of Semantic Mediawiki or Semantic Forms. I am just a user, and as Erik put it, an advocate.
That said, I believe these two extensions together solve the problem you are talking about. And for whatever reason, the developers of MediaWiki are willing to create new complicated syntax, but not new interfaces.
In your assessment, do these extensions solve the interface extensibility problem you describe?
To the list,
Regarding development process, why weren't a variety of sophisticated solutions, in addition to ParserFunctions, thoroughly considered before they were enabled on the English Wikipedia?
Should ParserFunctions be reverted (a simple procedure by my estimate, which is a good thing) based solely on the fact that they are the most clear violation of Jimbo's principle that I am aware of?
A simple procedure? Yes, disabling the extension would be rather simple, repairing the thousands of templates that would be broken in the process, not so much.