On mer, 2002-05-01 at 18:56, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:

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• Removes HTML comments from wiki text before rendering, so they can be used to leave comments _about_ the wiki text.

Not entirely unreasonable, but has this been discussed on wikipedia-l and/or the wiki?

I know I brought it up before with the old software, but I don't recall any particular arguments for or against. I think Clifford just wasn't interested enough to do it. If you think it might be controversial, feel free to bring it up to the group, but I don't see any big problem deciding some such issues by programmer fiat.

Well, if anybody doesn't like it, it can be taken out again.

Offhand pro: Comments can be used to note details of a tricky table layout or similar, to help future editors make sense of inherently confusing markup.

Offhand con: Hidden text seems contra-wiki in spirit; text that is commented out, but left in an article, may confuse newbie editors.

On mer, 2002-05-01 at 17:23, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

Patch file attached.

Checked into CVS.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)