Hoi, Given that there is no alternative to the templates the are imho opinion crucial and core functionality. It is key functionality for everyone who wants to set up a MediaWiki installation that looks good. Tex is effectively a corner case and is not comparable in importance. Thanks, GerardM
2009/7/17 Peter Gervai grinapo@gmail.com
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:06, Gerard Meijssengerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Well this strength is not that great when people like myself who has
commit
right on SVN does not want to touch templates with a barge pole if I can help it. Wikipedia is supposed to be this thing everybody can edit.
I think you misprioritise the whole thing.
Consider it a feature, not a base functionality. Most installations do not use 10% of the possible features available, due to lack of knowledge, time, bravery or else. Writing templates with code is a rare art by my observation, most of the larger MW installations never have used it in the first hand.
You would like to remove TeX (math) input because the language is complex?
And since it'd be an extension I guess, it would imply that you want to forbid(?) creating complex extensions? That's unrealistic. Geeks need this functionality, so ungeeks may or may not care about that, it doesn't really matter. If it's easier to understand than not: that's a plus.
By the way I wouldn't touch PHP with a teen feet pole and rubber gloves, but I'm fine with current template syntax. We're individuals with our own preferences. ;-)
grin
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