Hi,
Thanks for your message. I think it is honest and useful.
2014-09-01 20:40 GMT+05:30 Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org: ...
MV is a perfect example. 99% of the problems it objectively has (we ignore here matters of taste) derive from the difficulty of parsing the multitude overcomplicated templates living on File: pages to work around the fact that a wikitext page is complete and utter crap at storing metadata. It's not an argument against MV, it's an argument for getting rid of the horrid way we handle File: pages with ad-hoc workarounds. The *correct* solution is to fix the damn image pages, not to remove MV.
OK, I could buy that. But then why not fixing that *first*, so that any MV implementation coming afterwards would be smooth?
How is it that the old saying goes? "'We've always done things this way' is the most dangerous statement in any language?"
-- Marc
Regards,
Yann