2009/7/1 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
What would you replace them with? The wikitext used by regular editors should be as simple as possible, we don't want to require PHP or Javascript to be used by anyone wanting to add an infobox to an article.
There is nothing in the OP that indicates that we are keeping the current template code or even that it would be desirable. Whatever facilities the language we choose has for including other files and passing arguments to functions is 100% sufficient.
There is no proposal to replace wikitext with PHP (it wouldn't even work, PHP isn't a markup language, ditto Javascript, Python, etc.), the proposal is to replace the template code, ie. the code on the template pages.