On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brian wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Trevor Parscal
wrote:
* The topic is supposed to be on Template
Editing which is, at least
in the way it's being proposed, a little less of a stale topic -
so where is all the energy on that front? We have an XML format to
design and complex problems to sort out. Help is really needed.
Let's all take a look at the link provided at the beginning of
this thread
http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_forms
- Trevor
I do think that sufficient energy has been directed at this topic. People
have complained that xml is harder to edit that wikitext and that it is too
complicated, among other things.
I think this is an important point.
XML is hard to edit. That's the reason wikitext was created, to "fix"
the issues with the, even easier, html.
Now, it is being proposed to add a XML processing on top of wikitext to
describe templates.
<snip>
Unless expressly forbidden by the software implementation, I would
assume that "helpful" Wikipedians would very quickly write template
description templates to replace the XML and give it a "nice" wiki
interface. So, in practice, the question of whether XML is hard to
edit will probably be moot and reduced solely to the issue that
templates are hard to edit.
-Robert Rohde