On 19/01/07, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
There's a solution here. How about we introduce another language ****that is only available in the Template namespace****, specifically for this function? Call it Wikisyntax. Wikisyntax is a pure (and simple) programming language, with no markup. Wikitext is a pure and simple markup language, with no code.
Oh yes please. Separate data and code!
MediaWiki is one of those really nice bits of technology that lets geeks get really geeky, *but* is so simple to use that even people who can't work computers can be fantastically productive with it. (c.f. Firefox, LiveJournal, Mac OS X.)
It's hard to get across to some of the people pushing MediaWiki markup to its limits just how intimidating the computer gobbledygook can be to people who just hit "edit this page" and want to write about something they know about the subject.
- d.