Hi,
Thanks for your message. I think it is honest and useful.
2014-09-01 20:40 GMT+05:30 Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org>rg>:
...
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