On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Robert Ullmann rlullmann@gmail.com wrote:
Are you using $wgUseTidy? It is an HTML cleanup process that is always enabled on WMF projects. Since it it is there, template creators often miss closing spans and other things, or leave in extra close tags, and never notice because the tidy fixes them. Would not surprise me a bit if dozens of en.wp templates have such errors; I find them occasionally on en.wikt.
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. It is not a 3rd user's responsibility to install extra software just to be able to render our content... or at least, it shouldn't be. We should not artificially make it difficult to get our content forked or duplicated or elsewhile re-used.
Marco