On 22 August 2012 20:58, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think the editor community has much reason to participate. The template creator community does. They are more than technical to understand things on wikitech-l.
AIUI the Lua idea was explicitly run past the few people who write the insanely horrible brainfuck-like ParserFunctions templates. (Is this correct?) They would be the relevant part of the editor community - most of the editor community just want the template itself to work, they neither know nor care about the details of the plumbing.
So, has anyone translated {{cite}} to Lua? Is it comprehensible? Does it run faster?
The "community" is not a single thing. The community is made up of hundreds of sub-communities. If people are interested in technical decisions, they need to participate where technical decisions are made.
Well, one would think so.
- d.