On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 20:01 +0200, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Please make it
an extension and not part of the core syntax.
Please do not include it in MediaWiki at all.
This is my opinion. I defer to the judgment of others. But I think it
is a perfectly awful idea.
I don't think it's a good idea for Wikipedia, but I can see the
possibility that it might be useful for other special-purpose
wikis using the Mediawiki software.
That's another one of my ulterior motives for cleaning up the
extension syntax. The Mediawiki software is already suffering
from some serious feature creep, and its use at other sites is
only going to increase that pressure. I'm hoping that giving
the feature-hungry masses a way to add some whizbang to the
software that we at Wikipedia can choose to ignore may appease
them a bit.
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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com>
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