Wikitech-l on behalf of Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:27 AM, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
The edit history of that page is telling.
Be bold.
It may be a little naive to hope [dogfooding] will somehow make our software better at doing the thing it was designed to do when we try to force it to do something it wasn't designed to do.
What specifically are you arguing that MediaWiki was or was not designed to do? Please, go on.
That said, MediaWiki categories can be pretty powerful, and then you can combine them with templates or things like DPL. We already have such a system set up for RfCs on mediawiki.org, I think making a similar template and set of categories for summit proposals would be easy.
That seems like a lot of work where the time and effort is better spent elsewhere.
Another teaser here. What exactly is your vision for MediaWiki?
Are you really suggesting in your reply that supporting yet another markup language is more important and a higher priority than having usable categorization and tagging systems? I'm genuinely curious where you think time and effort is best spent.
MZMcBride