On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 12:50:51PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 11/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
The only way this will sell to Brion and Tim, much less the WMF and Wikipedia, is as a fait accompli; new parser, grammer, equivalence documentation, page grinder, and userlevel doco. All with a red ribbon.
I'm hoping we might be able to sell it off the plan:
"If we implement a parser that renders 99% of the current corpus of wikitext correctly, and we come up with a reasonable process for rolling it out without too much disruption, would you let us do it?"
I guess the answer would be yes. I'm not sure who all the angry comments in parser.php belong to, but they weren't kidding.
I have the (in this case) distinct advantage of never having seen that code. ;-)
Cheers, -- jra