On 05/02/11 15:30, wikitech-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 00:29:51 +0200
> From: Platonides<Platonides(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] WYSIWYG and parser plans (was What is wrong
> with Wikia's WYSIWYG?)
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> Magnus Manske wrote:
>> >
>> > So, why not use my WYSIFTW approach? It will only "parse" the parts of
>> > the wikitext that it can turn back, edited or unedited, into wikitext,
>> > unaltered (including whitespace) if not manually changed. Some parts
>> > may therefore stay as wikitext, but it's very rare (except lists,
>> > which I didn't implement yet, but they look intuitive enough).
>> >
>> > Magnus
> Crazy idea: What if it was an/extensible/ editor? You could add later a
> module for enable lists, or "enable graphic<ref>", but also instruct it
> on how to present to the user some crazy template with a dozen parameters...
Seems like it will need to be extensible, to allow authors of MW
extensions to add support for cases where they've changed the parser's
behavior?