On Sunday 11 January 2009 20:08:22 Brian wrote:
pointed out, "I would bet there's at least
one template that uses a
ParserFunction on 75% or more of all the articles on enwiki." MediaWiki
effectively has a programming language in it because of a few hours of
developer work and a few minutes of conversation. A programming language
that, apparantly, cannot be reverted.
That programming language was introduced solely because Wikipedia editors have
already been using another programming language, which had the same
capabilities, but used much more resources. If you can get Wikipedians not to
use any programming language in their templates, you can effectively revert
the change, and I don't see why the extension wouldn't be turned off
afterwards.
I have been to the developer presentations at all but
one Wikimania, and
they are dissapointing. I don't really see new ideas for features being
presented to the community, and I do not believe that the developers ideas
Including mine? :)