Helder wrote:
Yes, a million times this. We must figure out a way to centralize
templates so that maintenance is easier. The current system of per-project
wiki templates really strains under scale as many wikis have few active
editors and most of them are not technical.
Regarding inline styling specifically, I feel like we had this exact
conversation a year ago on Bugzilla or wikitech-l. As I recall, the gist
of the previous discussion was that we need to better educate users
about what good practice is, perhaps provide testing better tools (make it
easier to see how it looks on mobile, as Brion suggests), and then slowly
try to deprecate inline styling over the next few years.
I'm curious to see where the "Allow styling in templates" request for
comments goes (cf. <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?curid=130320>),
particularly with regard to the goal of atomizing content, which I think
the Parsoid and VisualEditor (Editing!) teams seem to want. While I
probably generally agree with trying to kill inline styling, it does have
seem to have a convenient advantage of being more easily encapsulated.
Related:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35704
MZMcBride