On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
What about turning wgUseTidy off for some time? Maybe some night hours... so that our template magicians are forced to clean up the templates and the other crap which resides deep buried into the wikitext.
They would just complain until we turned it back on. Unless we left it off for good, which might be reasonable, but then we'd have to improve Sanitizer, I guess. (Maybe once html5lib is more usable.)
We should not artificially make it difficult to get our content forked or duplicated or elsewhile re-used.
This is not artificial. Tidy serves a useful purpose. It might be less useful when we switch to HTML5, though -- my impression is that we mainly use it so that our HTML validates, but our HTML5 won't reliably validate in any case.