On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:10:00AM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:
Please vote on http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_Syntax
To explain again what this is about:
Currently there is one extension, LaTeX for mathematical formulas. This extension is called using the syntax
<math>a + b</math>.
This vote is about a general syntax for encapsulating different extensions. For example, a music extension could be encapsulated like so:
<music>do re mi fa so</music>
Or like so:
[!music do re mi fa so]
This vote is *not* about the syntax for the different extensions themselves (stuff like "\sin x + \ln y +\operatorname{sgn} z" for math), it is merely about the syntax for encapsulating these extensions. Some people think XML-like tags (like <math>) are good enough, while others are asking for a more "wiki-like" syntax.
Voting deadline is April 12, 2004, 20:00 UTC. Please distribute this announcement to your local projects. This is not only relevant to Wikipedia but to all Wikimedia projects.
Let the edit conflicts begin.
This vote is the dumbest of the votes held so far (unfortunately I expect even worse in the future). Average contributor has absolutely zero clue about technical issues that make one of the syntaxes preferable.
It's like voting on whether to use British or American spelling in Wikipedia, with majority of voters being native Chinese.