On 08/03/2016 10:48 PM, Subramanya Sastry wrote:
On 08/03/2016 07:17 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Subramanya Sastry ssastry@wikimedia.org wrote:
... I think it is feasible to get there. But, whether we want a spec for wikitext and should work towards that is a different question.
In our planning meeting (E250), we discussed this issue as a possibility for next week's ArchCom office hour (E259). We don't (yet) have a specific RFC we can point to, but this seems ripe for a discussion to answer whether we should work toward a spec. Thoughts?
Works for me.
I can take the email I posted, clean it up a bit, and also pull additional thoughts from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSastry_(WMF)/Notes/Wikitext and elsewhere that are relevant. The idea I have is to provide a very high level view of what one possible spec might look like, and what that might enable.
Or, should I pull together something else that might be useful to guide the discussion?
I have started working on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Notes/A_Spec_For_Wikitext to guide that discussion. It is definitely a rough and incomplete work in progress, but with enough initial material for sharing that link here ... mostly so that those of you interested in that discussion have some time to read at least some of that material.
Subbu.