Are the XML specifications intended as?
A) A required addition to current and future templates
OR
B) An optional addition to aid / facilitate the functioning of some advanced tools
The latter case seems far more achievable than the former case.
-Robert Rohde
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/25 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
Also, I am quite serious about my point that an entirely new language interface specification will be added to MediaWiki and that it will be widely adopted and propagate throughout the wikisphere, much like parser functions, and in the end will make the job of fixing MediaWiki much, much harder.
Whatever wikitext ends up becoming, it will probably still have templates in some form. If the XML language is designed properly, it won't make any assumptions about the current state of wikitext and templates, other than that:
- there are such things as templates
- they accept parameters
- parameters can, but need not, have names, types, descriptions, etc.;
types may or may not be enforced
This very limited set of assumptions will hold in any language that implements templates in a remotely sane way.
From what I have heard, there was a meeting about how to solve this problem among core devs and a few others at wikimedia headquarters, they decided what the solution would be
That's news to me; I'd very much like to hear from these people what their proposed solution is.
, and now you guys are moving forward on implementing it, totally ignoring the strategy wiki.
You make it sound like we're just going ahead and doing this, totally ignoring everyone else's opinions. Instead, we're proposing and discussing it on this list to get input from other people. If you think there's a more appropriate place to discuss this, just point us there; don't go around blasting us because we failed to read your mind.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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