Hoi, The Wikimania presentations of Alexandria are no longer online.. I am trying to find out if a backup exists.. Thanks, GerardM
PS If you have a copy of the Merrick Schaeffer presentation, I would be happy to learn that you do..
2009/1/11 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu
Perhaps, do you have a link? :)
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
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? :)
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