Moin,
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:02, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:43:33AM +0200, Tels wrote:
Moin,
Huh? Excuse me: "Moin is the name of another wiki software, occasionally considered to be competitive with MediaWiki. Are you using it's name here repeatedly as a form of address to be provocative?"
No, I use it as a form of greeting since like, oh, a decade.
On Friday 07 April 2006 04:27, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:42:51PM +0200, Tels wrote:
Exactly, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a distributed programming contest, whose ouput accidentily looks like an encyclopedia :)
But, as is frequently pointed out, Mediawiki is not *only* wikipedia, even if you only take WMF projects into account.
Yes, that was my point, too. How do you intent to distribute all the wonderfull little "code-snippets" written on wikipedia to other wikis?
I'm becoming more and more certain that you're merely trolling;
I hope not. :-( I am writing about these issues because I see problems arise and want them to be avoided before it's to late. Handwaving and "I dont see this as a problem" will not make problems go away, and I'd rather have a discussion about potential designs and solutions _before_ they are implemented.
this question is completely orthogonal to the issue at hand, and appears to be merely intended to be provocative as well.
No, it is an issue I consider very important. There is a difference between adding something like {{yesterday}} as a feature to the mediawiki software, or creating a template for it. In the later case you get all sorts of issues, like I described earlier.
As I said before, these requested features should be added to the software side, and not be created by creating a new template-language with all the problems that arise from that.
I hope that clears it up.
Best wishes,
Tels