Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:17:24PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
- is completely inappropriate in a discussion of 1. And that it's
important doesn't change that. A redesigned parser must present an almost-identical interface to the present implementation to get in; this is NOT the place to argue for syntax changes, and any attempts to change the syntax will in fact doom the effort.
Are you speculating, or speaking ex cathedra as a dev/staffer?
It is common knowlege with those who follow MediaWiki development discussions and have done for a while that changing wikitext syntax is considered A Bad Thing (tm) and will most likely get any commits reverted.
MinuteElectron.