On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Beside being way more effort than it is worth, what is particularly Lovecraftian about that? Cheers, Peter
What's bad about it, is that the meaning of the transcluded content changes radically on the context into which it is transcluded.
What's Lovecraftian about it is that it changes the syntactical meaning of elements on the page that it is transcluded in to, without even having to be near it.
--Martijn
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martijn Hoekstra" < martijnhoekstra@gmail.com> To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**orgwikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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On Jul 30, 2013 3:49 AM, "Marc A. Pelletier" marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 07/29/2013 07:00 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Are there any wikitext constructions that are actually going to be deprecated?
I'm not privy to the architecture decisions, but I'm pretty sure that the absolute worst monstrosity is the possibility of opening markup in a (possibly deeply recursive or, worse, conditional) template that is closed in a different template
I can dream up horrors you can't even imagine. Consider a template consisting if two single quotes. For a demonstration, see http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/**User:Martijn_Hoekstra/** Lovecraftian_horror2http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Martijn_Hoekstra/Lovecraftian_horror2
Getting it rid of /just/ that would
lose us no content (though it would break some frankenstein-grade markup) and gain us a couple orders of magnitude in parsoid reliability and simplicity.
And probably would make most of the VE team cry in relief.
-- Marc
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