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(a)gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:06, Gerard
Meijssen<gerard.meijssen(a)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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